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KVS02's avatar
KVS02
Level 4
14 years ago

Archiving Large Journal mailbox

Hi All,

I have a customer who decided to have Exchange Journaling enabled without any archiving solution and that mailbox is now 300GB in size. It is a Business requirement to retain the existing data in some form of archive and also carry on Journaling on the same mailbox however with EV this time. To my knowledge it will be a struggle for Journal Task using mapi to connect to a mailbox of that size unless there is a magic registry key to help.

Have you all come across a situation where EV can archive a large mailbox of this size or should their be another approach i.e. create multiple pst with exmerge and then import them to Journal archive.

Cheers,

TKB

Enterprise Vault
Information Governance

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  • Mohawk_Marvin's avatar
    Mohawk_Marvin
    Level 6
    14 years ago

    I have seen EV archive massive mailboxes. The initial scan of the mailboxes may take a huge amount of time (days) so dont let the EV box go into backup mode or fall over. But it should eventualy start to clear it down.

     

    Otherwise you should probably make a new journal mailbox for fresh data to go to, then methodically copy legacy data across.