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Hosted Exchange Archiving

Zones: Exchange Email Server, Hard Drives & Storage, Backup & Restore Software

Tags: Exchange, Archiving, GFI, Symantec

I am just putting this one out there. There are no right or wrong answers it's more of just a discussion really. I have 30-40 clients all on Exchange who refuse to pay for an Email Archiving solution. They are all relying on PSTs and I am seriously dreading the day they need to refer back to something and it's either not there, pst is corrupt or they just can't find the pst because the finger will end up being pointed at me even though this has be addressed over a dozen times. I am trying to get them to sign a waiver or sorts to at least cover me in the event this does happen saying they opted out of an Archiving solution. That being said here is what I want to do...

At home I currently have 6 HP Proliant DL380 G5's. 2 are connected to a storage array with ~ 7TB of storage. I have a business class cable connection coming in that is currently 50/50 so bandwidth is not an issue at all. I would like to figure out a way to remotely archive these clients emails to this cluster I have. It it were a single client I would have no problem. I would just create a VPN tunnel from my hour to their office (ASA 5510 here, ASA 5505 there) and use either Symantec of GFI to Archive.

It's still kind of early and I am only on my 1st cup of coffee so if I missed anything or this sounds crazy let me know. I won't be offended...

Thanks in Advance.

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Zone: Software

Question Asked By: simsjrg

Solution Provided By: Sembee

Participating Experts: 1

Solution Grade: A

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