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Table 31-2
Database Locations
To view a post office directory structure diagram, see “ Post Office Directory ” in GroupWise 8
Troubleshooting 3: Message Flow and Directory Structure .
Use your backup software of choice to back up all databases in each post office to a secure location.
If your backup software cannot handle open files, stop the POA for the post office while the backup
of the domain database takes place or copy the post office directory to a temporary location and back
up the static copy.
See also Section 32.2, “Restoring a Post Office,” on page 427 .
31.3 Backing Up a Library and Its Documents
If the document storage area for a library is physically located in a post office, the library and
documents are backed up along with the rest of the data in the post office. However, document
storage areas are frequently located outside of the post office directory structure because of disk
space considerations. Therefore, remote document storage areas must be backed up separately. A
post office can have multiple libraries and each library can have multiple document storage areas, so
make sure you have identified all document storage areas in your library/document backup
procedure.
After you have initially performed a full backup of your document storage areas, you can perform
incremental backups by backing up to the same location to shorten the backup process.
To ensure consistency between the backups of post office databases and document storage areas:
1 Back up your document storage areas using your backup software of choice.
2 Back up the post office, as described in Section 31.2, “Backing Up a Post Office,” on page 423 .
3 Perform an incremental backup of your document storage areas to pick up all new documents
and document modifications that occurred while backing up the post office.
Database Location
wphost.db \post_office_directory
ngwguard.db \post_office_directory
msg nnn .db \post_office_directory \ofmsg
user xxx .db
\post_office_directory \ofuser
pu xxxxx .db
\post_office_directory \ofuser
*.idx and *.inc \post_office_directory \ofuser\index
f d 0-F6 \post_office_directory \offiles
dmsh.db \post_office_directory \gwdms
dm xxnn01-FF .db
\post_office_directory \gwdms\lib00 00-FF
fd 0-FF
\post_office_directory \gwdms\lib00 00-FF \docs
*.idx and *.inc \post_office_directory \gwdms\lib00 00-FF \index