Recovering Domino mail

If you need to recover one or more Domino® mail databases from your backup save media, use the Restore Object (RST) command.

Start a IBM® i session with a user profile that has *JOBCTL and *SAVSYS special authorities.
Stop the Domino server that contains the mail databases that you want to restore.
Use the End Domino Server (ENDDOMSVR) command.
Mount the media volume that has the most recent backup of the mail databases.
Type the appropriate Restore (RST) command for the mail databases that you want to restore.
For example, to restore all the databases to the MAIL subdirectory, type the following command:
```
RST DEV('/QSYS.LIB/media-device-name.DEVD')
    OBJ('/NOTES/DATA/MAIL/*')
```

Examples:

The name of a user's mail database is typically the user's ID (short name) with the .NSF extension. (The Domino administrator has the option to use different names for mail database files.) To restore a specific user's mail database, such as the mail database for user GNELSON, use the following command:
```
RST DEV('/QSYS.LIB/media-device-name.DEVD')
    OBJ('/NOTES/DATA/MAIL/GNELSON.NSF') 
```

You can specify more than one file on the restore command. To restore mail databases for GNELSON, LSMITH, and JPETERS, use the following command:


RST DEV('/QSYS.LIB/media-device-name.DEVD')
    OBJ(('/NOTES/DATA/MAIL/GNELSON.NSF')
        ('/NOTES/DATA/MAIL/LSMITH.NSF')
        ('/NOTES/DATA/MAIL/JPETERS.NSF'))

Notes about the examples:

All of the examples assume that the directory for your Domino server is /NOTES/DATA.
You cannot restore over a database that is in use. All users must close the database before you can restore a backup copy.
Consult your Domino documentation for any special recovery activities that you might need to perform after you have restored Domino mail.