C.4 Setting Up Multiple Instances of Ndsrep

You can run multiple instances of ndsrep to support multiple drivers running against a single Domino server. You must specify the appropriate driver instance name as a parameter when loading ndsrep. By default, this instance name is the name of the driver.

If the name of your driver includes spaces, you must put quotes around the name.

Example for setting up multiple instances of ndsrep

Suppose you want to synchronize names.nsf and addressbook.nsf databases. To synchronize the databases, do the following:

  1. Configure two Notes drivers one for each database.

  2. Run two instances of ndsrep, one for each synchronized database.

  3. Configure ndsrep to write cache files with different names such as ndsrep.nsf and ndsrep2.nsf.

  4. Configure the second driver to read the second cache file (ndsrep2.nsf).

  5. To change the default Notes database that is synchronized by the driver, change the value of the Directory File from names.nsf to addressbook.nsf.

Consider the following important issues with setting up ndsrep and multiple instances: