Journaling likely and since it's external and very ugly method of journaling...
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 8:55 AM, John Hornbuckle < john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us> wrote: > Some built-in Exchange functionality, as I understand it. Exchange can be > configured to direct a copy of every message to somewhere else. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com] > Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 11:17 AM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Calculating Storage for Archiving > > How does an "off-site" vendor archive internal email? (email that is > sent/received between co-workers) > > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] > Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 10:41 AM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Calculating Storage for Archiving > > We're examining in-house verses off-site, and it's hard to compare > apples to apples without knowing what would be required to do it > in-house. The software costs are easy to calculate, but figuring out how > much storage and backup capacity I'll need is trickier. > > One of the off-site vendors we're looking at charges a flat rate per > user, regardless of mailbox size. Which I like the idea of, but it's not > cheap. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: James Wells [mailto:jam...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 9:57 AM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Calculating Storage for Archiving > > That will vary by vendor. > > I know that when I've used Zantaz, they had a mode that would just > analyze/report but not modify anything. > > You'll have to see what your compression looks like, retention period > for the archive, index sizes if searching...but I'd be sure to get a > solution that let's you expand or oversubscribe the storage OR plan up > front with the vendor how to deisgn the archive to cutoff after a > certain date and use new storage for all future. > > (iex: past - 2008 goes in archive bucket 1, 2009-future goes in archive > bucket 2). > > You probably need the latter method no matter what, because there's no > platform that can just expand forever on large archives.... > > > --James > > > On 3/25/09, John Hornbuckle <john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us> wrote: > > We're exploring options for e-mail archiving systems. Is there a > > standard formula that can be used to estimate how much storage space > > will be required per user? I don't have a clue how to come up with > > reasonably reliable numbers for this. > > > > > > > > > > John Hornbuckle > > MIS Department > > Taylor County School District > > 318 North Clark Street > > Perry, FL 32347 > > > > www.taylor.k12.fl.us > > > > > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ > > ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ > > > > > > -- > Sent from my mobile device > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ > ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ > ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ > > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ > ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ > > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ > ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
