Re: restoring archived mail

From: Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] (lanwench_at_heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com)
Date: 02/28/05 

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 10:40:06 -0500

news.bt.com wrote:
> We had a disk failure in a file server on Friday, which meant that
> some outlook personal folder .pst files were lost (previous night's
> versions recovered ok from tape)
>
> My question is:
>
> Is there any way of going back to Exchange and recovering any
> messages that were manually moved out to archive files on Friday?

Not really.
>
> - ie are they recoverable in the same way as deleted items (which we
> currently retain for 7 days)

No.
>
> - or are they completely deleted from the exchange system if they are
> moved to a personal folder??

Yes.
>
> I know this will only apply to mail that arrived on friday, and was
> moved to .pst the same day, but i have at least 1 executive user who
> does work that way, filing his mail as it arrives...
>
> Am very grateful for any help....
>
Don't use PST files if you can avoid it at all. You know you can use public
folders to archive what you wish (not automatically, but users can drag
stuff to folders in the PF tree)

In addition, note that MS does not support accessing PST files over a
LAN/WAN connection. Performance problems and likely data corruption can
result.

Re disk failures - if you use hardware SCSI RAID (even a single RAID5 array)
with a global hot spare, you're protected against a lot - two drives could
fail sequentially and your server wouldn't fall over and go 'boom'. I
recommend this for *all* servers.

>
>
> -H

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