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Is there any logic to PST exports?

Mark_Shoger
Level 4
Employee

All,

Can anyone explain the logic behind the Export Archive to me? I have a very grumpy user who had her vault disabled and exported to PSTs last night. Her vault was of sufficient size that 6 PST were created, 1.5GB each. What's upset her is that there are folder strewn across all 6 PSTs.

For example, let's say she had a folder called "My Stuff." There are parts of that folder in all 6 PSTs.

I would think that the logical approach would be to export folder A, then B, then the first half of C, then create a new PST, then export the other half of C, then D, and so on. Make sense?

Outside of manually re-organizing these PSTs, does she have any other options?

Thanks,

Mark

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Rob_Wilcox1
Level 6
Partner

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The PST File size limitation has been in EV for such a long time, even with the controls to say you want a PST file bigger than 1.5GB it will always split at that size

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And that's the bit we fixed in EV 9.0.2 ... changed the UI, and you can select up to 20 Gb... and it will split where you say .. give or take some loose change.

 

"There's a blog for that".  

 

http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/exporting-archive-pst-0

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Rob_Wilcox1
Level 6
Partner

Mark, I've never tried an export like that, but, you may wish to go to 9.0.2.. or recommend it.  9.0.2 you can export up to 20 Gb in one go.

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Mark_Shoger
Level 4
Employee

I've never tried that. Although we are looking at 9.0.2 for the simple reason that our domain controllers are at 2008 R2 and 8.0.3 doesn't support that.

We've always tried to keep our PSTs below 1.5GB due to issues with corruption above that.

M

Rob_Wilcox1
Level 6
Partner

In my experience the corruption is most likely with old-style PSTs that had a 2 Gb limit.  Outlook 2007 (I think) introduced bigger PST possibilities, and Outlook 2010 even bigger still.  EV wasn't updated to support the 20 Gb PSTs... it has been now (though it was missed from the 9.0.2 release notes)

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JesusWept3
Level 6
Partner Accredited Certified

Outlook 2003 introduced the larger 20GB PST file size when it switched from ANSI and was able to do Unicode. The PST File size limitation has been in EV for such a long time, even with the controls to say you want a PST file bigger than 1.5GB it will always split at that size


Based on http://support.microsoft.com/kb/823925

Outlook 2003 and 2007 have a default MaxLargeFile Size of 20GB
Outlook 2010 has a default MaxLargeFileSize of 50GB

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-allen-turl-07370146

Rob_Wilcox1
Level 6
Partner

<snip>

The PST File size limitation has been in EV for such a long time, even with the controls to say you want a PST file bigger than 1.5GB it will always split at that size

</snip>

And that's the bit we fixed in EV 9.0.2 ... changed the UI, and you can select up to 20 Gb... and it will split where you say .. give or take some loose change.

 

"There's a blog for that".  

 

http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/exporting-archive-pst-0

Working for cloudficient.com

JesusWept3
Level 6
Partner Accredited Certified

"And theres a response to that"

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/blogs/exporting-archive-pst-0#comment-5350471

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-allen-turl-07370146

Rob_Wilcox1
Level 6
Partner

tsck

 

 

I've told you a million times not to exaggerate .. there has not been 50+ service packs, only 47 :)

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MarkBarefoot
Level 6
Employee

you 2 take it outside.....and if it wasn't for me putting the original request in, it would still probably be at 1.5GB!

Rob_Wilcox1
Level 6
Partner

Also note that I did reproduce the "odd" behaviour that Mark pointed out originally.  When exporting you don't get :-

 

PST1

  All of folder1

 

PST2

  All of folder2

 

PST3

   All of folder3

 

You do get *some* randomness, it seems.  In my export (I have 125 PSTs) there are about 100+ that have Inbox, and at least 12 that have "folder1" in it.

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