Exchange Mailbox Archive manually deleted
Hi all,
it's not a issu, it's a question.
During some of my test, I manually delete an test archive on the "exchange mailbox" tab.
the warning was "deleting an archive permanently removes the archive adn all items stored in it. This action will override any from of deletation protection applied to items or retention categorie.
Once you click "yes" you cannot cancel the deletion.
Are you sure you want to delete "test account"
Here my 2 question :
1- if I understand the warning, there no option to put a deletation security like in exchange for exemple "keep the delete mailbox during XX day before delete it"
And second and most important.
What's happends if I made this hudge error ? and delete an archive mailbox... No way to restore it ? I backup the entiere enterprise vault archicture with netbackup, but I dont see any way to restore an full archive?
Is it possible? or I miss something?
thanks for you help.
- When you delete the archive from the Vault Admin Console it goes ahead and deletes the mailbox straight away. The only thing that prevents an archive from fully being deleted is if its items are in a retention category that says users are not allowed to delete items, or if its items are on legal hold (through discovery accelerator) There unfortunately is no archive dumpster for full archives. The only dumpster functionality is for individual items that the user deletes, but when you delete an archive through the VAC, the dumpster is bypassed and items are deleted there and then. There was talk at one time about having this option so when you set an archive for deletion it would keep it for 30 days and then you could recover it, but I haven't heard about this in a while. As for restoring an individual archive, you have really only one option And that is to set up a DR environment, with SQL Databases and Vault Store Partitions, then export out the Archive to PST then import it in to production. There is one other option though, you could use Quadrotech's EV Near Sync as this has the kind of functionality you may be looking for where if you accidentally delete an archive, you can recover it from EV Near Sync It also would serve another purpose by replicating your data for events such as DR. You can find more information about the product here: http://www.quadrotech-it.com/products/evnearsync/