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[Bug-paperclips] expedient


From: Howard Neely
Subject: [Bug-paperclips] expedient
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:33:49 -0500
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Although the repository is compressed, storage requirements will quickly mount if you keep each version of messages in the store. Users connecting via MAPI or the Outlook Web Access client may need to restart the client to connect to the backup server. As soon as I shut it down, the VM personas began to migrate to physical hardware. The traditional backup-and-restore process can take hours to resurrect a server, and any mail that comes in while the server is down will be lost.
You can track every change to some accounts, while keeping only the latest copy of other mailboxes, but only by spreading the accounts across separate stores. But afterward, I had to wait a couple of hours before my dinner date, so I headed over to Bryant Park and its free Wi-Fi connection. If you have a lot of users with fat inboxes, you might want to start replication over a weekend.
Locally installed applications are simply more reliable and feature-rich. No agent is required on the primary Exchange server because MailShadow uses the Exchange transaction engine APIs via MAPI to identify transactions to replicate. Any changes to the mailboxes that occur during the fail-over are incrementally updated on the primary server.
Man, nothing makes your blood pressure go up quicker than trying to do work on the Web while on a public Wi-Fi connection that drops you more often than a Hollywood wife. The console and the DigiStore vault can share the same system. Unless you already have an investment in other Neverfail clustering technologies, LifeKeeper is a better deal. All but Neverfail can protect multiple Exchange servers with one backup server, Neverfail requiring one backup server for each Exchange server protected.
Which is least expensive will depend on how many users per server you have.
That was no trouble because the office had guest Internet access and a steady Wi-Fi connection.
Its desktop publishing and presentation sites are still under development. It also seemed slower than Zoho.
Finally, you will need a second mailbox store, which may either be on the same Exchange server as the primary or on a second Exchange server. Linux personas are generally built and run as netboot systems, with their file system residing on an NFS server central to the solution. All transactions are recorded as they occur, ensuring no loss of e-mails that have arrived since the last backup.
The suite also includes a management application that proactively monitors Exchange, looking for data errors or configuration errors that might cause problems.
Tight integration among these applications makes overall management easier and can also help prevent problems such as mailbox store corruption from happening in the first place.
Transactions received since the last backup are backed up before the restore commences. Tight integration among these applications makes overall management easier and can also help prevent problems such as mailbox store corruption from happening in the first place.


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