Re: Email Archiving Best Practices
- From: "Samantha B." <nospam@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 16:56:41 -0400
Don't overlook how long will it take you to restore the current Exchange
data from tape, should you ever need to. I've seen some honkin' huge
stores, way over MS best practice, and I can tell you, it takes forever to
bring even a 100GB .edb file back from tape, especially if you want to do it
the "right" way and run an eseutil and an isinteg on it before mounting it.
If it'll take you 72 hours worst-case scenario to recover from a storage
failure (for example), it makes the price tag of some of these products seem
a more affordable!
"Brillmike" <brillmike@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Awesome info. Thanks.
"Samantha B." wrote:
I'd recommend looking at one of the many 3rd party archival solutions out
there. Some are quite good. MS doesn't have any products that will allow
you
to offload data from the info stores and still maintain control of the
data.
Archiving to .pst is just a pain to support if you have more than about 4
users. Store them on the network and #1 MS won't support it #2 they get
corrupt frequently #3 storage overload is shifted from Exchange to
fileservers. Store them on the local PC and there's rarely any
centralized
backups--- when they get corrupt, they're gone.
Like Ed said, there's no Best Practice per se but you should evaluate
current maibox size, number of users, and most importantly how long it
will
take to restore your biggest store from tape, should the need ever arise.
My
former employer allowed the stores to grow to over 480GB each (insane)
and
we had to pull 3 of them off tape after a SAN failure. Not fun. But you
really can't tell users to offload their mail till you give them a way to
do
it, and this is really not Exchange or Microsoft's strength.
FWIW We use the Veritas product (they are Symantec now) Enterprise Vault
for
archiving and we adore it. Our policy is, we retain nothing over 7 years
old. current-90 days stays in the info store; 90 days-5 years stays on
the
SAN and 5-7 years gets dumped off to jukebox storage. It's pretty sweet.
"Brillmike" <brillmike@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks
"Brillmike" wrote:
Can anyone recommend an Email Archiving Best Practices quide. We need
to
implement policy to control our every growing information stores. We
want
to
creat policy for quotas, migrating email, retention etc. I am looking
for
a
good resource document to jump start our effort.
Thanks, Mike
.
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