Once you have discovered the Exchange Journal mailboxes and configured a
subclient, you can perform immediate and scheduled compliance archiving jobs, similar to performing
and scheduling backup jobs for iDataAgents.
Compliance Archiving operations move the contents of the subclient to the
archive media. The purpose of compliance archiving is long term retention of data, for example, to comply
with regulations.
Storage policy configuration is very important when using the Exchange
Compliance Archiver Agent. The
retention period for the storage policy associated with the Exchange Compliance
Archiver
subclient will determine how long archived data is retained. The Exchange
Compliance Archiver Agent uses
Storage Policies, which by default have infinite retention
periods so that the data will never be pruned. Take care when adjusting the retention
period of these storage policies.
Storage Policies provides
comprehensive information on storage policies.
The Exchange Compliance Archiver discovers and archives
Journaling mailboxes defined through the Exchange Server. (The journal mailbox
captures new incoming and outgoing messages.) If you want to archive messages
that exist outside of the journal mailbox, i.e., messages that were sent and/or
delivered before archives of the journal began, you must archive the
non-journaling mailboxes on the server. To do this, create the
FindAllMailboxes
registry key in the computer on which the Exchange Compliance Archiver is installed. Once this key
has been created, you will be able to discover all mailboxes and add them as
subclient content to be archived.
Be sure that the Delete Archived messages after successful archive
operations option is not selected when configuring subclient content for
this operation. Otherwise, all of the messages that are archived will be deleted
from the mailboxes. This option should only be selected when archiving
journaling mailboxes.
Archives of the existing messages and mailboxes (those created prior to
implementing the message journal mailbox) need only be done once, after which
time new messages will be captured by and archived through the message journal
mailbox.
You can choose to apply Advanced
Archive options to your operation. The advanced archive options provide media
management tools at the operation level, as well as tools to optimize your
archive operations for specific circumstances.
The following section provides the steps to set up and run a Compliance Archive
Operation:
Since a default subclient is not created, create a user-defined
subclient and configure the content. See
Configure Subclient Content for step-by-step instructions.
Archived messages are deleted from the secondary storage during cleanup
processes. By default 256 archived messages are deleted in a batch. This
figure can be changed by following the steps given below:
From the CommCell Console, navigate to Client Computers.
If you would like to configure Exchange Compliance Archiver to only archive messages
that are older than a specified date, or that are within a specified date
range, this can be accomplished using the
sDoNotArchiveAfter
and/or
sDoNotArchiveBefore
registry keys.
The
Microsoft Exchange Mailbox iDataAgent,
Exchange Mailbox Archiver Agent and Exchange Compliance Archiver Agents for
Exchange Server 2000/2003 do not back up or archive disabled mailboxes by
default. However, if you would like to include disabled mailboxes in the data protection operations for these agents, you can add the nBackupDisabledMailBoxes registry key.
Note that mailboxes marked as disabled in Exchange Server 2007 are disconnected
by default and therefore cannot be archived or backed up.
Use
sCASServerName key to identify the CAS servers during profile
creation for Exchange 2010 DAG configuration and also when Exchange 2010
server does not have Client Access Role.
