RE: Mail Retention Policy-- Hardware suggestions
HP. DAT DLT Soultions are robust (as long as you clean the heads as per instrusions) and they offer great free replacement on drives (in the UK) that fail in warrant. We have a lot of their drives both in house and on customer sites. -Original Message- From: Paul Green [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 05 February 2002 19:42 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mail Retention Policy-- Hardware suggestions Anyone recommend any good tape hardware (drives) ? I currently do not have any removable media storage. Right now I am just using Second Copy 2000 to automatically copy user files, and our fund accounting data to different buildings over the fiber. So it's somewhat off-site. But I would like a tape solution. I have 4 main buildings, all tied together with fiber. The building I am in, houses the exchange server, fund accounting software, web, and the user files for this building. The other buildings all have their own file and print server (to minimize traffic over the fiber). Any recommendations on a tape solution and hardware the would accommodate this (brand, model, etc).. I appreciate it, Paul -Original Message- From: Steve Wyman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Posted At: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 8:54 AM Posted To: Exchange 2000 Server Conversation: Mail Retention Policy Subject: RE: Mail Retention Policy 4 tapes Monday - ThursdayRe-used the following week Offsite for 1 day 5 Tapes Friday1-Friday5 Re-Used the following Month Kept offsite until following month 12 TapesLast day of the month Month1-Month12 Never reused Kept off Site for ever! Mail box limit's 50Mb Warn 55Mb Stop send 60Mb Stop send and recieve Deleted Item retention 30 days Users can archive Email using outlook if they have to. -Original Message- From: Ray Zorz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 04 February 2002 22:00 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mail Retention Policy Backups 5 days/week. 4 weeks of tapes, no offsite except the night before that I carried with me. Deleted Item Retention set to 10 days. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 2:55 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mail Retention Policy Backups 6 days a week Weekly backup rotated offsite for 28 days 150 Meg on server retention? -Original Message- From: Keith Laliberty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 13:53 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Mail Retention Policy Hello everyone, My boss has asked me to get a sampling of what others are doing for mail retention (Backups, offsite storage, mail limits, and on-server retention). Any thoughts would be appreciated. Keith Laliberty SR. Network Admin Mahi Networks List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Mail Retention Policy-- Hardware suggestions
Anyone recommend any good tape hardware (drives) ? I currently do not have any removable media storage. Right now I am just using Second Copy 2000 to automatically copy user files, and our fund accounting data to different buildings over the fiber. So it's somewhat off-site. But I would like a tape solution. I have 4 main buildings, all tied together with fiber. The building I am in, houses the exchange server, fund accounting software, web, and the user files for this building. The other buildings all have their own file and print server (to minimize traffic over the fiber). Any recommendations on a tape solution and hardware the would accommodate this (brand, model, etc).. I appreciate it, Paul -Original Message- From: Steve Wyman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Posted At: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 8:54 AM Posted To: Exchange 2000 Server Conversation: Mail Retention Policy Subject: RE: Mail Retention Policy 4 tapes Monday - ThursdayRe-used the following week Offsite for 1 day 5 Tapes Friday1-Friday5 Re-Used the following Month Kept offsite until following month 12 TapesLast day of the month Month1-Month12 Never reused Kept off Site for ever! Mail box limit's 50Mb Warn 55Mb Stop send 60Mb Stop send and recieve Deleted Item retention 30 days Users can archive Email using outlook if they have to. -Original Message- From: Ray Zorz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 04 February 2002 22:00 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mail Retention Policy Backups 5 days/week. 4 weeks of tapes, no offsite except the night before that I carried with me. Deleted Item Retention set to 10 days. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 2:55 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mail Retention Policy Backups 6 days a week Weekly backup rotated offsite for 28 days 150 Meg on server retention? -Original Message- From: Keith Laliberty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 13:53 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Mail Retention Policy Hello everyone, My boss has asked me to get a sampling of what others are doing for mail retention (Backups, offsite storage, mail limits, and on-server retention). Any thoughts would be appreciated. Keith Laliberty SR. Network Admin Mahi Networks List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Mail Retention Policy
4 tapes Monday - ThursdayRe-used the following week Offsite for 1 day 5 Tapes Friday1-Friday5 Re-Used the following Month Kept offsite until following month 12 TapesLast day of the month Month1-Month12 Never reused Kept off Site for ever! Mail box limit's 50Mb Warn 55Mb Stop send 60Mb Stop send and recieve Deleted Item retention 30 days Users can archive Email using outlook if they have to. -Original Message- From: Ray Zorz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 04 February 2002 22:00 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mail Retention Policy Backups 5 days/week. 4 weeks of tapes, no offsite except the night before that I carried with me. Deleted Item Retention set to 10 days. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 2:55 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mail Retention Policy Backups 6 days a week Weekly backup rotated offsite for 28 days 150 Meg on server retention? -Original Message- From: Keith Laliberty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 13:53 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Mail Retention Policy Hello everyone, My boss has asked me to get a sampling of what others are doing for mail retention (Backups, offsite storage, mail limits, and on-server retention). Any thoughts would be appreciated. Keith Laliberty SR. Network Admin Mahi Networks List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Mail Retention Policy
Backups 6 days a week Weekly backup rotated offsite for 28 days 150 Meg on server retention? -Original Message- From: Keith Laliberty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 13:53 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Mail Retention Policy Hello everyone, My boss has asked me to get a sampling of what others are doing for mail retention (Backups, offsite storage, mail limits, and on-server retention). Any thoughts would be appreciated. Keith Laliberty SR. Network Admin Mahi Networks List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Mail Retention Policy
Backups 5 days/week. 4 weeks of tapes, no offsite except the night before that I carried with me. Deleted Item Retention set to 10 days. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 2:55 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mail Retention Policy Backups 6 days a week Weekly backup rotated offsite for 28 days 150 Meg on server retention? -Original Message- From: Keith Laliberty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 13:53 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Mail Retention Policy Hello everyone, My boss has asked me to get a sampling of what others are doing for mail retention (Backups, offsite storage, mail limits, and on-server retention). Any thoughts would be appreciated. Keith Laliberty SR. Network Admin Mahi Networks List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Mail Retention Policy
We do: nightly backups we rotate tapes weekly to our other location, kept for 1 month then reuse we had a 300MB limit, boss said to remove, so currently no limit(6 mailboxes are now 1GB each!!!) 14 day retention period -Original Message- From: Schwartz, Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 3:54 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mail Retention Policy Don't ask us. Ask your lawyer. A good rule of thumb is if you are not legally required to retain it. Get rid of it. -Original Message- From: Keith Laliberty [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 4:53 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Mail Retention Policy Hello everyone, My boss has asked me to get a sampling of what others are doing for mail retention (Backups, offsite storage, mail limits, and on-server retention). Any thoughts would be appreciated. Keith Laliberty SR. Network Admin Mahi Networks List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Mail Retention Policy
Monday saved for 4 weeks T-F reused weekly deleted item retention 30 days dave erickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Keith Laliberty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 3:53 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Mail Retention Policy Hello everyone, My boss has asked me to get a sampling of what others are doing for mail retention (Backups, offsite storage, mail limits, and on-server retention). Any thoughts would be appreciated. Keith Laliberty SR. Network Admin Mahi Networks List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Mail Retention Policy
BACKUP? ok, every other day, half of server. Retain monthly tapes for one year. Do not backup exchange at a brick level, but retain 7 days of deleted files at the user level (outlook). -Original Message- From: Erickson, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 4:05 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mail Retention Policy Monday saved for 4 weeks T-F reused weekly deleted item retention 30 days dave erickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Keith Laliberty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 3:53 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Mail Retention Policy Hello everyone, My boss has asked me to get a sampling of what others are doing for mail retention (Backups, offsite storage, mail limits, and on-server retention). Any thoughts would be appreciated. Keith Laliberty SR. Network Admin Mahi Networks List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Mail Retention Policy
Title: RE: Mail Retention Policy Backups: Weekly full, daily incremental (our backups include IS, Exchange Directory, mailbox backups pst files. Tapes are kept for 1 week 1 week only, then over-written, after two months daily tapes migrated to weekly tapes, and then used for two months then they are erased and disposed of and a new set is started. Legally we were advised to not do any email backups, however, mgmt wanted something so we settled on this plan. Offsite - None for Exchange No mailbox size limits, we do use Mailbox Manager weekly to delete messages older than 45 days. Deleted Item Retention - 0 Days Someone has already stated that you should check with your lawyers and take their advice and only backup retain what they recommend. Legally, email backups are in a different category than data files are. If the information (email) is available, then in case of a lawsuit, you can be forced to restore and produce that information. -Original Message- From: Keith Laliberty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 3:53 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Mail Retention Policy Hello everyone, My boss has asked me to get a sampling of what others are doing for mail retention (Backups, offsite storage, mail limits, and on-server retention). Any thoughts would be appreciated. Keith Laliberty SR. Network Admin Mahi Networks List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Mail Retention Policy
Hello, Thank you for all of your feedback. I agree and we will talk to legal about what is best for us. One last question regarding user PST files. What are you doing with them... Do you store them local, server side... Keith Laliberty -Original Message- From: Keith Laliberty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 1:53 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Mail Retention Policy Hello everyone, My boss has asked me to get a sampling of what others are doing for mail retention (Backups, offsite storage, mail limits, and on-server retention). Any thoughts would be appreciated. Keith Laliberty SR. Network Admin Mahi Networks List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Mail Retention Policy
Title: RE: Mail Retention Policy ERADICATE THEM. PS I am NOT being sarcastic. If you want Pst's you should consider Earthlink and get rid of your Exchange server. -Original Message- From: Keith Laliberty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 6:49 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mail Retention Policy Hello, Thank you for all of your feedback. I agree and we will talk to legal about what is best for us. One last question regarding user PST files. What are you doing with them... Do you store them local, server side... Keith Laliberty -Original Message- From: Keith Laliberty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 1:53 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Mail Retention Policy Hello everyone, My boss has asked me to get a sampling of what others are doing for mail retention (Backups, offsite storage, mail limits, and on-server retention). Any thoughts would be appreciated. Keith Laliberty SR. Network Admin Mahi Networks List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Mail Retention Policy
Don't have any. -Original Message- From: Keith Laliberty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 4:49 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mail Retention Policy Hello, Thank you for all of your feedback. I agree and we will talk to legal about what is best for us. One last question regarding user PST files. What are you doing with them... Do you store them local, server side... Keith Laliberty -Original Message- From: Keith Laliberty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 1:53 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Mail Retention Policy Hello everyone, My boss has asked me to get a sampling of what others are doing for mail retention (Backups, offsite storage, mail limits, and on-server retention). Any thoughts would be appreciated. Keith Laliberty SR. Network Admin Mahi Networks List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Mail Retention Policy
You may not But I have my users store them in their personal directory ( on the network) and use them as a personal archive for those messages that they just have to keep ;-). This way the data is off my Exchange store but still easily accessible to the client. It also means that the pst is backed up each night as part of our network backup. I have shown them how to manually move messages and some of them have client side rules to do it for them. -Original Message- From: Ray Zorz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 5 February 2002 11:09 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mail Retention Policy Don't have any. -Original Message- From: Keith Laliberty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 4:49 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mail Retention Policy Hello, Thank you for all of your feedback. I agree and we will talk to legal about what is best for us. One last question regarding user PST files. What are you doing with them... Do you store them local, server side... Keith Laliberty -Original Message- From: Keith Laliberty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 1:53 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Mail Retention Policy Hello everyone, My boss has asked me to get a sampling of what others are doing for mail retention (Backups, offsite storage, mail limits, and on-server retention). Any thoughts would be appreciated. Keith Laliberty SR. Network Admin Mahi Networks List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
