Export journal to PST failing
Hi, all.
I need to export our journal archive into PST files to migrate it to MIMECast.
I've already exported 201 GB of personal archives into PSTs with no problems. Whenever I do the journal account, it gets to PST number 28 (about 15GB) and fails.
I rang Symantec. The only solution they had was to break down the export into smaller chunks. Fine, but I tried a chunk that was 15 days long and that failed. We've got three years' worth of journaling, and I don't fancy having to start a new export task for every 10 day period. Also, to use that method would mean moving each set of archives into a new folder, so that it won't append the next set of e-mails to the last of the PSTs in the same folder. That method would lead to file naming issues.
Whilst the export is going on, the available system memory in taskmanager is slowly going down. It then fails and the available memory creeps back up.
I've now got an 80GB page file. The Symantec guy said adding more virtual memory would extend the amount of achives it could do before crashing, but it didn't change anything.
I tried tweaking the PST file size. I tried 200MB and it only exported 2 GB before failing. I didn't see the system memory state that time.
Is there any way around this?
My server spec is:
Dell Poweredge 2950 x86
4x Xeon 2.66
4GB RAM
Windows 2003 SP2 Standard
EV 8 - Service Pack applied but I can't tell which one.
Event Viewer has this:
Export Archive Report
Export status: Incomplete
Processing aborted due to an unrecoverable error.
Many thanks, guys.
Tom
Archive Shuttle from EVTools.net, Transvault, and there is a new tool on the market now called evolve that all may be able to help.
One other option, do you currently have DA? You might be able to use it to do the export.