Hi all, I have a high level technical question for you re BE2014, Exch2013 and its inbuilt archiving.
I have been asked to suggest a retention policy for our new Exch env. I have gone back to the buiness and asked for retention times/rpo/rtos etc, but in the meantime I'd like to get a better understanding of how these products should hang together.
- My Backup env is BE2014 with Exch agents on W2K12R2, with 1TB of storage and then 2xLTO6, all HP kit.
- The Exchange is W2k12R2 with Exch2013 Update 7, and will utilise the inbuilt archiving utility.
- The Exch data is about 15TB, each Exch Storage Group is under 400GB. So I plan to use the 1TB storage as a staging area and to utilise in the event of restore.
The way I would see it working is as follows;
- Backup Exchange DBs, with a standard 5 day GFS, with a minimal retention period, say a month.
- Then archive all email after a month and run a seperate backup of the archived items, that would run every week, with a much longer retention period that the buiness specifies (eg 7 year).
Does this sound correct? Or is their benefits from running both backups for the 7 year retention periods?
Thanks for any advice you can provide,
regards
M
