SMTP Holding Folder - disk corruption prevention

[GertjanA]

Hello all,

Seeking advise/solutions.

When using SMTP archiving (EV11/12) you need a holding folder. If the disk which has the holding folder corrupts, you risk loosing data. If a journal message is send by SMTP it 'disappears' from Exchange, and gets stored in that folder. In between the sending and archiving, there is a risk the disk gets corrupted, causing a potential loss of journal messages.

How did you (if implemented) work around this? How do you secure the holding folder, so you can retrieve lost messages (if any)?

thanks.

GJ.

[Mouse · Accepted solution]

Clustering and replication offsite. All our customers whose EVs have business value have such a set up, the SMTP Journaling is no difference. This will not help to address logical corruption issues though, for example if a bug in EV code would damage the source files, but I doubt you can reliably protect from such issues, maybe by taking PiT snapshots of replicated volumes offsite but this will have limited depth depending on how much you can afford to spend on the storage.