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Backing up a Notes shared mail database?

1999-05-03 10:39:00
Subject: Backing up a Notes shared mail database?
From: C. Lopez <carlos_lopezm AT IECI DOT ES>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
Date: Monday, May 03, 1999 10:39
>Hi all:
>
>This is a question about a Notes server with shared mail activated.
>
>Shared mail is a functionallity to reduce the space needed to store a
>message sent to several recipients. Every user's mailbox just keeps a
>reference to the body of the message. The body of the message resides in
>the shared mail database. (In this way, when you send a Christmas greetings
>message to all of your work colleages you will not fill up the space of
>your Notes server ;-)
>
>My question is:
>If you make a backup with Notes Agent of a user's mailbox, are you saving
>the header plus a reference to the shared mail database, or the full
>message?
>I think this is an important question regarding the restore of a database.
>If you save just a reference to shared mail, this shared database gets
>absolutelly critical, in the restore process. Now it is far too critical
>for my taste, without recovery considerations.
>
>I hope ADSM developers can confirm the details of this process.
>
>Yours, faithfully.
>
>Carlos Lopez
>Systems and Neworks Management
>Informatica El Corte Ingles
>mailto: carlos_lopezm AT ieci DOT es
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