Archive Replaced?

[Doreen]

Outlook 2002
We are archiving the user's mailboxes directly to their hard drives.
Yesterday one of the users noticed that all the entries in his Archive
calendar are missing. We've been archiving for over a year, and he's
archiving his Calendar, so there should be entries. I checked the file
properities of the archive itself and the creation date is four days ago.

This is bad...there is no other .pst file on his local system. I'm pretty
sure the answer is that I'm SOL but if anyone has seen this before and has
any idea where I can look for this archive file. Or if not to find it, how
this could have happened and how we can prevent it. (It is unlikely that
the user would have gone in to his profile and deleted his Archive, and even
more unlikely that it was done by someone else.)

ANY information is going to be GREATLY appreciated! (And yes, I know
archiving is not the best way to solve information overload in
Exchange/Outlook, but that's what we're using.)

Thank you,

Doreen

 

[completelyrandomaddress]

I archive my users Outlook to a server (each user in a
separate mailbox). The server gets backed up nightly, so
if this did happen again you wouldn't be up the creek sans
paddle.

I have my own archive issue, so here's a warning, be
careful if the user is viewing more than just their
mailbox (delegate of someone else). As all open mailboxes
on that Outlook will be archived based on the folder's
settings. The archive file does not seperate items by
users mailbox (all calendar entries for all users is in
one calendar)

Good luck.

brian