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Planning backups for Lotus Domino virtual machinea

In this scenario the customer is using a combination of Backup Exec, VCB and vRangerPro to backup the VI.

My question is: is it possible to make consistent backups of Lotus Domino databases using the above tools considering that the customer has no Backup Exec agents for Lotus Domino? Will the snapshots taken by VCB/Backup Exec or by vRangerPro maintain consistency of Lotus Domino DBs?

The simplest way to do this would be to use VCB integration of Backup Exec and save all .nfs file to tape along with all the rest of the data that is already being saved this way (mainly file server data); now, since Domino is not VSS enabled i am concerned to suggest a way to give them consistency in the backups, i don't want to find out later on that you can't restore the DBs because they are corrupted or not up to date.

vRangerPro is used mainly as a disaster recovery tool backing up full virtual machines without VCB integration.

Hope someone has experience in this scenario. Thank you.

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