09-28-2010 10:10 AM
Im planning to migrate my mailboxes archives from EV 6.0 to EV 8 using the pst export and EVPM script to import to EV 8 .
how safe to execute using this method as most of the time i do faced some mails failed to import and it is very diffciult to tarck which mail failed from import.
Please advise.
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09-28-2010 11:17 AM
As long as you have allowed sufficient time for the migrations you should be fine. Have you considered doing inplace upgrades of the existing EV environment. V6 > v7 > v7.5 >v8 > v9? It looks like a lot of steps, but it would probably be faster than trying to export and import all the users' archives in the long run. Check out the following document: http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH53174
09-28-2010 11:17 AM
As long as you have allowed sufficient time for the migrations you should be fine. Have you considered doing inplace upgrades of the existing EV environment. V6 > v7 > v7.5 >v8 > v9? It looks like a lot of steps, but it would probably be faster than trying to export and import all the users' archives in the long run. Check out the following document: http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH53174
09-28-2010 12:07 PM
I agree with maxwits about upgrading. Even if your end goal is to move EV to new hardware you could do the upgrade of existing and then do a data only recovery to the new server.
It will save you LOADS of time.
09-28-2010 02:02 PM
As an FYI, as one of the earlier service packs (SP 3, I think) Enterprise Vault 8 is now :-
a) much better at proceeding past a "bad" item in a PST file
b) Logs a "proper" message in the event log, allowing you (as an administrator) to easily find the problem item.
09-29-2010 01:37 AM
You could also look into some of the migration tools that are available, like TransVault and Procedo?
I have used TransVault a few times and I find it is very good and reliable.