Save disk space on server

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I need to save more space on the disk of my server.The biggest directory is the mail one.

Theese are the policy that we have implemented:

  1. 30 Mb maximum internal message size;

  2. 15 Mb maximum external message size (on the HUB server);

  3. archiving policy active on documents that have attachements older than 365 days;

  4. no database quotas implemented.

I’ve thought to implement the db quotas, to decrease the archiving period to 2 months and to decrease the size of the messages.

Someone could suggest me sometinghs else?

Thanks in advance.

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Subject: save disk space on server

Did you consider compressing attachments and optimizing internal images in DBs? I guess you will get a big % of savings by doing it.There are tools that will help you with this at www.zipmail.com

In this site there is another tool that implements a kind of more sophisticaed policies but in the workstation before the email is sent… by this way the users won’t get the non-delivery failure anymore but as soon as they click on Send the message box appears in the screen and there is no non-delivery failure.

HTH

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Subject: save disk space on server

Given the low limits you have set, using a single-copy-template (available since Notes 6.0.1) version of the mail template might help quite a bit as well.

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Subject: save disk space on server

Hello Dainelli,

You can also consider running the compact task via a program document. For example, if you ran a weekly ‘compact -s 10 -B’, databases with 10% or greater unused space would be compacted in-place and their file sizes will be reduced.

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Subject: RE: save disk space on server

I forgot to say that the compact task is implemented!Thanks for your suggestion!

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Subject: save disk space on server

I was able to reduce the size of my mail file by a third by archiving attachments. I used this “Agent to archive mail attachments” from openntf.org

           http://www.openntf.org/Projects/codebin/codebin.nsf/CodeBySubType/C074E5ECFF4289BA862571D400758B95

Once I got the mail file cleaned up I started archiving attachments as soon as I receive them. It’s so much easier to manage them after they’re saved off.