Outlook Backup

[Pall]

On our exchange server we have a quota that prevents
users from keeping a majority of their emails. Files need
to be kept for historical referenece, so I decided to
create a .PST file on our network drive as "Personal
Folder" and have the users drag into it, the files they
would like to keep. Can anyone forsee any problems I may
run into down the road and any disadvantages to the route
of backup I chose?

Cheers!

 

[Gordon]

Pall cogitated deeply and scribbled thusly:

On our exchange server we have a quota that prevents
users from keeping a majority of their emails. Files need
to be kept for historical referenece, so I decided to
create a .PST file on our network drive as "Personal
Folder" and have the users drag into it, the files they
would like to keep. Can anyone forsee any problems I may
run into down the road and any disadvantages to the route
of backup I chose?

Cheers!

Not really, but pst files are not designed to be used on network drives.
The best answer is to create archive pst files locally on your HDD and
COPY them every so often (if you add to them that is) to a network drive
where they will be backed-up in the normal course of events.

 

[Gordon]

Pall cogitated deeply and scribbled thusly:

Our guys are working on Terminal Server so I don't really want them to save it anywhere on the local drive, but rather on a Network drive... do you prefer Archiving over creating a New PST File? If so, what's the diff?

Cheers!

There's no PHYSICAL difference between an archive file and just creating
a new pst. The Archiving function allows you to archive automatically by
user-set criteria so you don't have to manually search through all your
folders, if, for example you want to archive all mail before a certain date.