We considered telling people to unarchive, but
1) It's a pain. Unless you've found a better way (API?), the user needs to go into each and every folder, select all, go to a menu and uncheck Archive. So this is unlikely to happen with 100% fidelity.
2) Old mail may have archived for a reason (other than GW's notrious fragility with large mailboxes).
3) We have Atempo LiveBackup for desktop backups, and it works well, and it's just as cost-effective for us to back up archives that way as on the Zimbra server. (Obviously, if you omit old stuff, DR is faster.)
4) Old mail is more likely to contain noncompliant garbage that causes Zimbra and/or the migration wizard to choke.
5) We expect some migration failures. Archive2Go stores a complete copy of both live nad archived mailboxes, giving us a failsafe. Obviously this means more disk space (especially in LiveBackup), but for some business and VIP users, the $2K license cost is good insurance. A more cost-constrained environment (or one with a higher user-to-archive ratio, thanks to Archive2Go's license model) might decide differently.  |