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Archive Considerations for this Agent
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.
For a description for each of the Advanced Archive options and why you would use them, see Advanced Backup/Archive Options.
To find out which Advanced Archive options are available, see Advanced Backup/Archive Options - Support.
Before performing any archive procedures for this agent, review the following information:
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.
Including Disabled Mailboxes in Data Protection Operations
The Exchange 2000/2003 Mailbox iDataAgent, Exchange 2000/2003 Mailbox Archiver and Exchange 2000/2003 Compliance Archiver Agents 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.
The Calendar Archive Job Summary Report provides the total amount of archive jobs run (along with their job status) for a specified time period.
The Archive Job Summary Report provides a list of archive jobs and displays the coverage or the latest trend for each subclient.