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SEV Backup dilemma

jahanbin
Level 3

We use SEV for mailbox archiving and journaling.

 

Trying to see what the options are when there is a SEV disaster.  We take nightly backups of SEV.  If SEV fails we can restore it from the backup but at that point the data will be a day old.

 

How do you get the journaling data that you are missing at that point?

 

I had hoped to be able to recover the items from the journaling mailboxes using the exchange dumpsters and have SEV process the messages again but the recover deleted items for these mailboxes seem to be grayed out.  We have a global limit that retains deleted items within exchange for an extended period of time.  Does SEV delete the data in a way that is not recovered from the exchange dumpster?  What is the recommended solution here?

 

Thanks,

Nima

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JesusWept3
Level 6
Partner Accredited Certified
If journal backups are that important to you, you can leave your vault store partition in an After backup mode where it won't delete the items from the journal mailbox until they are confirmed backed up Or ifyou have a centera with a replica you can use replication where backup is done almost immediately Or you can use the glasshouse Nearstore or nearsync or whatever it is they call it
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-allen-turl-07370146

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JesusWept3
Level 6
Partner Accredited Certified
If journal backups are that important to you, you can leave your vault store partition in an After backup mode where it won't delete the items from the journal mailbox until they are confirmed backed up Or ifyou have a centera with a replica you can use replication where backup is done almost immediately Or you can use the glasshouse Nearstore or nearsync or whatever it is they call it
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-allen-turl-07370146

MichelZ
Level 6
Partner Accredited Certified

It's called EVNearSync: http://www.evtools.net/products/ev-nearsync  ;)


cloudficient - EV Migration, creators of EVComplete.

jahanbin
Level 3

Thanks for your responce.

We can't really set the journaling task to leave messages in the mailbox for after backup because of the large number of emails that get.  I was really hoping to be able to use exchange dumpsters.

 

Does anyone know why the messages removed by SEV don't show up in the dumpster?  Is there an option to allow for that?

JesusWept3
Level 6
Partner Accredited Certified
You'd probably have to talk to Microsoft about that A good test might be setting a journal mailbox up and seeing if you can get the dumpster through outlook without EV touching it, because it might just be a characteristic of exchange and not of EV But really what would be the difference between the dumpster and after backup? It'd still take a large amount of space in exchange, the dumpster even more sonbecause the items would hang around for days Also can't you replay the exchange transaction logs to get the email??
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-allen-turl-07370146

jahanbin
Level 3

It is not exchange as If I delete a message manually from outlook it makes it to the dumpster.  Messages removed by SEV don't.

 

Our exchange environment is already configured to have a very high dumpster limit.  The environment was created so we can keep messages in the dumpster for 1 year (yea i know it's crazy).  The transaction logs get cleared after each nightly backup so that wouldn't help.

 

It just seems to me like SEV is removing the messages in a way that can't be retrieved.  I wish there was a way to control that.