Approach - use the IND file extension

HCL Notes/Domino 8.5 Forum (includes Notes Traveler)

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After upgrading the servers and then loading the 8.5 client binaries I took batches of user mail files over a period of a week off hours using the "ind" extension. Executing these commands from the console after each finishes:

load compact -c mailfiles1.ind
load convert -s -u -f mailfiles1.ind * mail85.ntf
load updall mailfiles1.ind

The IND file extension allows you to batch user mail files into a single file for execution. This is extremely helpful when you want to stage your migration and is fast.

Did this while the Domino server was running but suggest you "quit" the router while this is running. Or if you can, quit the server and then run the OS executables for compact, convert and updall.

I planned all my mail files by dumping select files into a text files and then just created the corresponding IND files under the data directory of the 8.5 mail server:

mailfiles1.ind
mail\user1.nsf
mail\user2.nsf
mail\user3.nsf

mailfiles2.ind
mail\user4.nsf
mail\user5.nsf
mail\user6.nsf

mailfiles3.ind
mail\user7.nsf
mail\user8.nsf
mail\user9.nsf

You need to list the files line by line AND make sure you add a blank line at the end. There seemed to be a bug where the last entry wasn't recognized as an "end-of-file" and would skip it.

I suggest you try a couple mail files and watch the console to see how this works.

We upgraded from 6.5.6 to 8.5.0 . You will also need to set the resource reservation database with some update fields.

See some of my other post earlier this year. There are things to watch out for with the personal address book not upgrading . In our case the user's PAB did not show the 8.5 design which caused problems.

Feedback response number WEBB7XQNFF created by ~Sigmund Asatoolitflar on 11/12/2009