12-18-2015 05:51 AM
Hey guys,
we just gained the responsibility to support a further company and we will activate EV for them. In advance we have the task to import all their collected PSTs. Therefore I'm just creating the overall process and testing the PST import wizard in the backend.
My colleagues shared some old monitoring mails with me and I put them into several PSTs.
We want to move all PSTs in a folder called "_PST" and create shortcuts for the archived items. In the first tries the migration was always failing having the report telling me that there are no eligible items. After a while I checked the archive explorer and everything was there. So just the shortcuts have not been created.
EV: 10.0.4
Exchange 2010 RU11
PST Size: 50-100 MB
Mailbox size: 350MB
Mailbox quota: 3GB
So even if there was enough space in my inbox I have changed the quota to unlimited and in the next try even the shortcuts have been generated.
So my question is, why is the reporting of the PST migration so far awy from the reality?
EVENT 6742
PST Migration Report
Migration status: IncompleteProcessing aborted due to an unrecoverable error.
PST file: T:\PST_Import\Calendar 2013 Export.pst
Archive Name: Myuser
Vault Id: 1B4AB8C031D5FD043B85394F308ED18241110000archive
RetentionCategory: MBX JRNL Retention
Exchange Server\Mailbox: NE-ML-DB05\Myuser
Number of folders processed: 4
Number of items archived: 0
Total size of items archived: 0 KB
Number of items unable to be archived: 0
Number of items not eligible for archiving: 294
Number of items moved to mailbox: 0
Elapsed Migration Time: 0:0:6 (hours:minutes:seconds)
Migration Rate: 0.00 MB/Hour
What you see here is a PST migration, where everything is stored successfully, but with failing shortcut creation.
Is there anything I have to prepare for this process?
Kind regards,
woelki
12-18-2015 06:22 AM
From the looks:
It looks like you are importing Calendar entries. Calendar entries by default do not get shortcuts. (due to the shortcut having a different message class, which makes the item non-calendar items)
If my assumption is correct, try again using normal mails in the PST.
Are you creating the shortcuts in the PST? or in the mailbox?
12-18-2015 07:26 AM
Hi GertjanA,
in one of the test PSTs I got calendar items, but not in all. We don't want to archive calendar items.
The shortcuts should be created in the associated mailbox.
Cheers,
woelki
12-22-2015 04:01 AM
It seems like you have excluded whatever Message Class you are archiving.
What happens in EV is it marks the data as eligible. EV then writes the originals (not shortcuts) to the mailbox.
You can check that by comparing the size of all PSTs with the mailbox size.
Check if you have anything excluded from message classes that could be noticeable (like system message).
01-26-2016 07:55 AM
Sorry, but it is not that simple. To simplify it and to verify the result I have created a PST with older emails from my company (not archived by EV).
There I just have picked 24 regular emails, no calendar entries, NDR's or something else.
I have now tried to import them and I instantly get the following error message:
PST Migration Report
Migration status: Incomplete
Processing aborted due to an unrecoverable error.
PST file: T:\PST_Import\EW_archive.pst
Archive Name: "MyName"
Vault Id: 1B4AB8C031D5FD043B85394F308ED18241110000archive
RetentionCategory: TEG MBX JRNL Retention
Exchange Server\Mailbox: NE-ML-DB05\"MyName"
Number of folders processed: 3
Number of items archived: 0
Total size of items archived: 0 KB
Number of items unable to be archived: 0
Number of items not eligible for archiving: 24
Number of items moved to mailbox: 0
Elapsed Migration Time: 0:0:5 (hours:minutes:seconds)
Migration Rate: 0.00 MB/Hour
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://entced.symantec.com/entt?product=ev&language=english&version=10.0.4.0&build=10.0.4.1189&error=V-437-6742
Although the report mentions there are no eligible items, they are all available in the archive via the archive explorer immediately.
Unfortunately no shortcuts are created.
Any further ideas?
02-01-2016 12:48 AM
Have you tried to open the PST with Outlook? Do you get any errors there?
02-10-2016 02:47 AM
PST opens fine. And now after I switched back to use default quotas I had my first successful import including shortcut processing.
Unfortunately the report seems not to be very consistent. I'm just gathering more PSTs to do more comprehensive tests.