Scenario
Domino Cluster (Version 6.5.1)
DominoN1
DominoN2
Replication 1 way (push) from DominoN2 to DominoBackup all databases are setup not to replicate deletions, therefore all mail that is not deleted within 15minutes of last replication is saved in DominoBackup. This helps greatly with being able to restore mails from anytime without dealing with the backups of the cluster.
Issue – Some of the databases have grown very large (up to 18GB) also a lot of the information saved there is obsolete and the chances that a user will request a restore is very slim.
The company policy states that all of this data needs to be retained.
I had an idea.
Create Archives of the databases by year.
Starting with data received before 2001 and archiving to new archive databases - saving this data to 2 tapes (an extra one just in case)
Then once the data has been saved deleting it from Domino (the new archives)
Continue with this year by year until 2006 and only maintain on disks in the DominoBackup server for the last 2 years.
Putting this in to action. – Via policies.
I created a new archiving policy (explicit) and assigned in to one user to see if it would be possible to use policy documents to archive this task.
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Created an Archive settings document
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Specified the archiving criteria
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3Add archiving criteria to the Archive settings document
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Assigned the policy to users (explicit – 1 user to test)
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The last step to verify that this has been pushed out – No joy
The policy does not get pushed onto the database on the DominoBackup server
In the archive setting document
Archiving Options –
Performed by – SERVER
Archiving source Database – Specific SERVER (DominoBackup)
Destination database is on –
Specific SERVER (DominoBackup)
I have used policy documents in several environments and successfully step up, the process of pushing the policy to the user is quite clear for me.
What I am not clear about is if I can assign a policy to a particular Database of a user.
That is the replica of the user’s mailfile on a Specific SERVER (DominoBackup)
The users do not have any access to the DominoBackup server.
Does anyone have any ideas, or a better suggestion?
Or a script that I could apply to all of the databases to move the old mail out of the databases on the backup server, allowing me to archive them historically to tape.
Thanks in advance