10-29-2009 04:39 AM
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10-29-2009 11:14 AM
So just so I'm clear, you're saying that you want to archive from noon until 5am?
Strictly speaking, you can do this, yes. From what you've specified, your backup schedule won't conflict with your archiving schedule, and you'll be in normal modes when archiving and backup modes when running backups.
The question you need to ask yourself, however, is 'Do I really need that long of an archive window?'
You need to keep in mind the following:
1. Archiving puts a load on the Exchange server, so it's best to do it after business hours when users aren't trying to access their mailboxes
2. Enterprise Vault only calculates what is eligible for archiving at the start of an archiving run.
When you're in steady state (i.e. - Initial archiving after rollout is done and the backlog taken care of), it typically only takes a few hours to archive all eligible items from the past day. Once you've gotten past those first couple of hours, there's just no reason to keep the archiving window open.
Also keep in mind that, if you have your stores set to delete safety copies after backup, you don't want to get into a situation where users see pending items during the day. They can't move, copy, or delete those pending items, and that sort of thing results in calls to the helpdesk.
I would recommend setting your archive schedule to something around, say, 1am to 4am daily. Run your archiving tasks in report mode each morning and look at the reports to make sure that you're getting all of your eligible items. If you're not, you can increase the archiving window accordingly.
Jason
10-29-2009 09:46 AM
10-29-2009 11:14 AM
So just so I'm clear, you're saying that you want to archive from noon until 5am?
Strictly speaking, you can do this, yes. From what you've specified, your backup schedule won't conflict with your archiving schedule, and you'll be in normal modes when archiving and backup modes when running backups.
The question you need to ask yourself, however, is 'Do I really need that long of an archive window?'
You need to keep in mind the following:
1. Archiving puts a load on the Exchange server, so it's best to do it after business hours when users aren't trying to access their mailboxes
2. Enterprise Vault only calculates what is eligible for archiving at the start of an archiving run.
When you're in steady state (i.e. - Initial archiving after rollout is done and the backlog taken care of), it typically only takes a few hours to archive all eligible items from the past day. Once you've gotten past those first couple of hours, there's just no reason to keep the archiving window open.
Also keep in mind that, if you have your stores set to delete safety copies after backup, you don't want to get into a situation where users see pending items during the day. They can't move, copy, or delete those pending items, and that sort of thing results in calls to the helpdesk.
I would recommend setting your archive schedule to something around, say, 1am to 4am daily. Run your archiving tasks in report mode each morning and look at the reports to make sure that you're getting all of your eligible items. If you're not, you can increase the archiving window accordingly.
Jason
10-29-2009 01:13 PM