Rainer Brandl

Domino Backup to Windows Shares

In a customer environment I had the request to put the backups of Domino ( with the new feature Domino Backup which is really working fine ) to another Windows Share.

This share can only be accessed with a special logon account but I didn’t want to create a local backup and copy all directories to the Windows Share afterwards so I decided to use a CMD file on the Domino Server where I tried to map the Windows Share to a dedicated network drive. After some errors and the great help of Daniel Nashed I solved this issue the following way:

Created the needed CMD files ( map_network_drive.cmd and unmap_network_drive.cmd) with the following content:

map_network_drive.cmd
net use q: \windows share\d$\domino_backup /user:username password

unmap_network_drive.cmd
net use q: /delete

Afterwards you create your backup configuration and there you have to set the “Pre-backup command” and the “Post-backup command” to the type “CMD” where you enter the name of the 2 command files:

With this configuration I could directly redirect the Domino Backup to a Windows Share.

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  1. Of course, you then also need to check if the user that the Domino service is running as has proper access to all resources on the server itself. I recommend piloting this on a test server.

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  2. Actually, the answer is surprisingly simple. You just have to run the service as a user instead of under the SYSTEM identity. The SYSTEM identity has no acces to network shares, a service running as a user does. That is if the user the service is running as is authorized. It is what I use to let Domino background agents acces files shares. i have also used it to make a Domino backup on a file share.

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      • You may take a look in tool like CyberArk. With such tools you are able to use credentials in Skrips without exposing confidential data

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