How do we get around the Lotus Notes 60 Gb database barrier

Question

Are there ways to get around the upper database size limit on Notes databases? We are compacting a database that is still approaching 60 gigs in size. Thank you very much if you can offer a suggestion.

Answer 1

Even if you could find a way to get over the 64GB limit it would not be the recommended solution. Splitting up the application into multiple databases is far better if you wish to improve performance and retain the stability of your Domino server. If you think you have to have everything in the same database in order to be able to search, please look up domain search and multi-database search in the Domino Administrator help.

• Maybe some parts of the data is "old" and could be put into one or more archive databases instead?

• Maybe you have a lot of large attachments and can store them in a series of attachment databases?

• Maybe you have a lot of complicated views that can be streamlined or eliminated and thereby save a lot of space and keep everything in the same database for the time being? (Remove sorting on columns where not needed, using "click on column header to sort" is a sure way to increase the size of the view index.)

Answer 2

I'm assuming your database is large because of file attachments as well. In that case look into DAOS - it will store all file attachments on filesystem (server functionality - transparent to clients and existing applications).

As a bonus it finds duplicates and stores them only once.

More here: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/domino-green/