Re: MS - Archive and recovery of emails
- From: Joe <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:05:03 +0100
kj wrote:
Claus wrote:Yes, spend the $500 and implement MailArchiver from GFI
I'm running SBS 2003 Server. My tape backups are getting large. I've been
asked to backup (archive) current emails so users can clean out their
accounts of older emails. Here's the catch... My boss wants to
have the ability to recover an email from the archived backups
without reloading all
the emails back into his now smaller email account. Make sense?
Is there a more (cost effective) easier way to do this?
--
Dave
Well worth the money if you have Premium edition as MailArchiver requires full SQL.
Which presumably gets backed up... though possibly only once,
instead of twice with Exchange. Not sure, though...
Or for the poor man's version, export complete folders from Outlook
to Access. Not the best performance, but excellent query/report
features and extremely cheap if you already have Access.
It depends what you mean by 'recover', over what period, and how much
money might be lost if it becomes unrecoverable. Really quick and dirty
is to use .pst, and dump to CD/DVD now and then. Use good quality discs,
and don't rely on them for more than four or five years. Anything really
valuable should have been dumped to good old-fashioned paper and kept in
a fire safe off the premises. Anything really, *really* valuable
wouldn't be entrusted solely to email in the first place. As always, a
quick cost-benefit guess, sorry, analysis can bring about a return to
sanity. Access to really old email is occasionally useful but rarely
business-critical.
Bear in mind if you use an on-line solution, even a second, separate
mail server, for example, a cache maintained by Outlook is likely to
live in the user's profile, and therefore get backed up anyway...
....rule 1, 'you can't win'.
Have you checked the users' profiles for pictures and MP3s, by the way?
Provide an un-backed-up share, suggest the users back up to CD by
themselves, and that any .jpg and .mp3 files kept in their normal
profiles will occasionally spontaneously disappear.
.
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