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Originally Posted by Catfish
Any idea how absolutely "fast" MS's Exchange server and any backup will run with millions of eMails in the bin 
I will not be a happy system administrator !!  |
Um,... yes,... I actually do know how "absolutely "fast" MS's Exchange server and any backup will run" clogged with emails: one of the last places I worked merged with another corporation and, after the merger was finalized, I was tasked with moving all the emails related to the merger either to or from principals who had worked directly on the merger teams for my corporation and who left after the merger (voluntarily or 'forced'); I found out that a very large number of those persons had the habit of never clearing out their inboxes and they also had the habit of sendting emails and not trimming out the previous texts of the originating message and/or the responses, so, as time went on each email message had an ever increasing 'tail' of prior communications text appended to the bottom of each succeeding message; the increase in the size of space taken up by each email was exponential; the problem with archiving emails in publicly traded corporations is there are laws, both Federal and State, mandating the preservation of all correspondence not only related to the merger, but of anything that might possibly be of import should there be any future investigations or litigation (I had a very enlightening conversation with a couple of persons from the Legal Dept. on just how far reaching those laws and regulations are)...
My Director asked me one day about the progress of my task and I informed him I believed the transfer should be done after hours and, preferably over a weekend; he didn't like that idea (overtime, etc.), so he ordered me to start the transfer to the archive servers immediately; I warned him the results could be unpleasant, but he wanted action
now; I went to my PC and initiated the transfer...
About an hour in, I got a very angry call from the IT administrator demanding to know what I was doing on my station; it seemed the huge flood of emails had spiked the server banks and had brought the system to a snail's crawl and their investigation of the cause haled them to my IP address ; I explained what was being done and he demanded that I cease the transfer immediately; I put him on hold, went to my Director office and told him someone wanted to talk to him...
I must say I rather enjoyed looking through the window of the Director's office from my cubicle and seeing him get all flustered as he got a telephonic dressing down...
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