Re: Exchange 2003 with KVS Enterprise Vault 6 SP2
- From: pat.kitchener@xxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: 1 May 2007 00:50:28 -0700
You are quite correct the problem is one of retention, we are trying
to get the powers that be
to agree to a retention and deleteion policy but it's hard going, we
migrated from a pop system
kept on an AS400 with the email being collected on the local PC's with
Outlook Express.
As part of the migration the email was imported into the Exchange
enviornment so in some cases
the is up to 8 year worth of email :-(
We do a nightly archive off to KVS of read mail older that 30days or
10days if it contains a large
attachment.
We are also keeping email of users that have left the authority. We
have just spent another 6 grand on disks
to go in the SAN.
We are using the partition facilty on the vault volume and doing a
full backup of the active partition
on a weekly basis with a cumlative differential on worrk days.
We only backup the whole partion once a month.
On 30 Apr, 16:58, "Mark Arnold [MVP]" <m...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 30 Apr 2007 07:32:59 -0700, pat.kitche...@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hello
This is my first posting on this site - I find it an invaluable source
of information, I am responsible for the Exchange enviornment in our
Organisiation which is local goverment.
We have two Exchange 2003 servers with the mailstores spread evenly
over the two servers, we have one front end server hosting OWA 2003
and one server hosting KVS EV6 SP2, we have about 1800 live users at
any one time.
The hardware seems to cope no probles with the loading, the problem we
are having is that the vault is growing at an alarming rate, approx
1GB per night, we have no reprting tools to see what is happening in
KVS other than the simple SQL scripts given to us by Symantec.
We have had this running for around 12-15 months now and our vault
partition is already approaching 1TB in size.
Does anyone know of any reporting tools available for KVS and Exhange
combined - bearing in mind that we will soon be looking at upgrading
to Exchange
2007 if it is thought beneficial.
We currently are saving all emails with a retention period of forever
- so the vault is bound to grow - we are trying to get all departments
to agree to a deletion policy but being local goverment - things
happen very slowly.
We have got around our backup problems by splitting the vault up
active partitions, (we use Netbackup)
Any help would be appreaciated - have many users experienced the same
effects.
Your only problem is one of policy.
I've worked with a lot of local authorities who are told to get the
Exchange storage down but have little clue about how to do it. Then
along comes a vendor who sells them an archiving solution. Many IT
professionals working for local authorities lack exposure to the wider
IT industry and don't always ask how taking it off Exchange and onto
EV is going to make it better. Then they don't consider the storage
they will need.
The reporting tools you get within Enterprise Vault are plenty for
your needs, what you must get a handle on is how long you intend to
keep the information. I would get the policy from the FOI officer (you
are required by law to have one and they are required, by law, to tell
you how long you are to retain emails, what categories to delete and
what to keep)
Another thing following on from this is your backups. I assume that
since you have netbackup you are doing NDMP backups against the SAN.
So, you should only be backing up once a month or so, whenever you
archive from Exchange to EV. There's no point in doing other backups
since the data doesn't change.
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