Skip to Main Content
HCL Domino Ideas Portal

Welcome to the #dominoforever Product Ideas Forum! The place where you can submit product ideas and enhancement request. We encourage you to participate by voting on, commenting on, and creating new ideas. All new ideas will be evaluated by HCL Product Management & Engineering teams, and the next steps will be communicated. While not all submitted ideas will be executed upon, community feedback will play a key role in influencing which ideas are and when they will be implemented.


For more information on products and upcoming events around #dominoforever, please visit: HCL Domino Page


2 Not supported for the current status
Status Under Consideration
Workspace Domino
Categories General
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 16, 2026
Merged idea
This idea has been merged into another idea. To comment or vote on this idea, please visit DOMINO-I-3052 Provide method to integrate Domino 14.x VSS Writer Backup /Restore with Arcserve UDP.

Support of new 3rd party backup applications (especially Windows Server backup service) for snapshot backup/restore with Domino VSSwriter Merged

From Domino 12.0.2, Domino VSS Writer was provided , we can do Snapshot backups with the following document

*******************************************************

Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) writer
https://help.hcl-software.com/domino/14.0.0/admin/admn_vsssnapshots.html?scLang=en

*******************************************************

But this document does not mentioned the list of 3rd party backup applications which are tested and supported except for Veeam.

We know Veeam was fully tested supported, and also restore script was also provided on

https://opensource.hcltechsw.com/domino-backup/backup-providers/veeam/


So please verify other 3rd party backup applications, publish the results, and provide related scripts if it is needed.


This customer also has the following requests:

  1. Windows Server Backup relies on the same VSS infrastructure and is designed to interact with any properly registered VSS Writer on the system. For this reason, we believe that confirming the expected behavior and compatibility of the Domino VSS Writer with the Windows Server backup service should take precedence over evaluating third‑party backup solutions.

  2. Please consider to add the following description in the following Domino 14.x document

https://help.hcl-software.com/domino/14.0.0/admin/admn_vsssnapshots.html

Description in Japanese:

Domino が提供する VSS Writer は Windows 標準の VSS フレームワークに準拠していますが、動作検証を行っているのは Veeam などの特定のサードパーティ製品のみです。そのため、Windows Server バックアップ(WindowsBackupService)を含む他のバックアップアプリケーションとの動作保証は行っておりません。Veeam 以外のバックアップアプリケーションを使用する場合は、お客様の責任において連携・ご利用いただく必要があります。

Description in English:

While the VSS Writer provided by Domino complies with the standard Windows VSS framework, its operation has been verified only with specific third-party products, such as Veeam. Consequently, operation is not guaranteed with other backup applications, including Windows Server Backup (Windows Backup Service). If you choose to use a backup application other than Veeam, you do so at your own responsibility.


Thanks!


  • Admin
    Thomas Hampel
    Jul 17, 2026

    We can not test every backup vendor. The list of backup providers is intentionally published as a github repo in order to allow ANYONE (=e.g. you!) to contribute to the list.