Questions tagged [archive]
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Microsoft Exchange Solutions
We have an 800GB (and Growing) Exchange 2010 SP1 environment and a 3rd Party Archiving Solution on top of that. We have grown without bounds for years (No retention polices outside of Sent/Deleted items and no mailbox quotas. We no longer have…

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Email Archiving
My company has been looking at setting up a way to archive all incoming and outgoing email in a searchable and reliable setup. We are running a pretty standard exchange 2003 setup, with a third party spam filter. What I was interested mostly in is…

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Extracting and saving attachments from maildir, deduplicated
I would like to know if there exists a solution for archiving email, stripping out the attachments and saving them separately, deduplicated?
The ideal would be a maildir-setup, with a script running over the messages, extracting the attachments,…

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optimal folder structure for storing 100k files on a USB drive
I need to store 100k files (around 40GB) in a USB drive. Each file has a unique int id (e.g 45000).
Option one is to put all files in a single…

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Best way to archive a floppy disk?
I have a floppy disk or 2 that I'd like to keep for a long time, and frankly I'm amazed that they've lasted this long. I'd like to make a copy on the hard disk that I can use to recreate the floppy if need be. For CDs they have the ISO format, is…

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Recursively archive small files in document tree on linux?
Given a base directory (like /home/user) is there a command that could be run which would create an archive back up all text files (i.e. files less than 100kb) in that directory and it's children? I know you can tar/gz a directory - but what about…

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Use QLC SSDs as RAIDZ (scientific archive)?
We are building a system for the archival and scientific analysis of some weather data.
The setup is redundant, with two HP DL580, Proxmox (ZoL) and some GPUs for analysis. On each server we plan 5 pools of around 50 TB. We use SSDs for density…

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What's the difference between Archive Software and Backup Software?
I was reading this article when I came across this curious tid bit:
Think I'm exaggerating? Just ask Morgan Stanley, who up until the mid
00's used their backups as archives. The SEC asked them for a bunch
of emails, and their inability to…

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List to archive old data on Server 2012
I am needing to write a script, or find another way of listing directories on a drive where the folders haven't been accessed in the last 4 years and have the list outputted to a txt file.
Server is Windows 2012.
I hope my explanation isn't too…

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Enable manual archiving for Outlook 2010
In our environment, we are using Outlook 2010 version 14.0.7. Under the file tab in Outlook, I want a specified user to have the option to go to 'Cleanup Tools' and then click on 'Archive' but it is greyed out. We use Exchange Server 2010 sp1 for…

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make Postfix to bcc mail twice
I am running a Postfix mail-server, to scan mails I forward them to amavis, after the scanning amavis forward the mail to ciphermail (a program that automatically de- and encrypts emails). Ciphermail resent the mail to amavis and amavis resend the…

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Exchange 2010 Whitespace after Archive move
We have multiple Archive Mailbox databases.
I have had to create a new one with 500GB of Data space for the archives and 150GB for the logging files.
The problem I am having is that even after moving 100GB of Archive mailbox data from one database…

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How do I take an eml file and place it in the inbox for journaling, without sending the email?
I have an archiving system that reads both envelope and legacy journaling messages in an Exchange 2010 environment.
The journaling target is simply a mailbox that receives a copy of every SMTP message, and there is a 3rd party application that…

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Compress files to daily/weekly/monthly archives with Windows scheduled tasks
For EDI files which need to be archived, I would like to use a compression utility (like 7Zip) which collects and compresses files based on their file date. For example, a weekly archive (incoming-2009-01.7z for week 1) needs to be updated with all…

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Segmenting mysql backups using tar
In addition to using mysqldump, I've been backing up my mysql server by tarring up /var/lib/mysql for redundancy and convenience. This directory includes ibdata, ib_logfile0, and ib_logfile1 as well as some other files and a subdirectory for each of…

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