Moving 'Offline Vault' data to a remote site
Updated: 21 May 2010 | 4 comments
Hi,
Is following scenario possible regarding EV 'Offline Vault'?
Situation:
A company has remote offices (slow WAN links)...
For the remote users, Offline Vault must be enabled. Mailboxes are already enabled ...
To prevent a very slow progress in building up local Offline Vaults on the pc's or laptops (hundreds of MB's or even some GB's of mailbox data)for the remote users, is there a way to solve this by creating the Offline Vault folders locally in the HQ-Office (by loggin on with the users' ID on a local pc) and then shipping the OV content by DVD (for example) to the remote site where it is unpacked on the local harddrive?
I remember to be informed ( already a long time ago...) by Symantec Support that this "should work" as the root foldername (hex user ID reference) of the Offline Vault folder which is created when you enable someone for Offline Vault, is always the same.
So, copying the root folder of the Offline Vault (already containing nearly all data) to the local pc's or laptops, prior to enabling the OV on those machines, would result in an Offline Vault folder which only needs to copy de remaining emails (Offline 'delta') over the WAN link as all the rest of the DB files already contain the data due to the copy.
Am I correct?
Has anyone experience with this?
Thanks for any info!
Rudy
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I'd suggest to try it out with a test user...
I've examined the files in those folders, and there are no machine-specific things, in theory, it should work :)
Make sure Outlook is closed on both sides, and enable OV before closing Outlook on the new Computer.
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I think I got this to work in my Lab. In my testing I did the following with all the EV services and IIS on the EV Server stopped:
On the original User machine I did this:
On the new machine I did this:
You could try that, let me know how it goes for you. :)
Tony Sterling
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