Migration from Groupwise 6

[gnyce]

Also... when it tries to create the Trusted Application, I had to wait about 30 seconds before trying to start the actual migration, as GW had to pass around (via MTA/Admin?) the credentials/settings. You can check to see if the trusted app connection is made in ConsoleOne... select your PostOffice, pulldown menu Tools, GroupWise System Operations, Trusted Applications...

[Ian Forbes]

Hi

Does the Advansys ArchiveToGo tool convert local Groupwise archives to a pst file format, so other Zimbra tools could then import the mail?

[gnyce]

No - it is its' own format. Basically, it is XML-formatted text for each message.

[Ian Forbes]

Originally Posted by gnyce

No - it is its' own format. Basically, it is XML-formatted text for each message.

Hmmm. I'm a little confused Would this tool allow me to take my Groupwise locally archived mail and either convert into a format like pst or directly import right into Zimbra? Essentially, I'd like a tool that I can use once and forget about it once everything is in Zimbra. It sounds like the tool you mention is used alongside Zimbra.

[gnyce]

We had no interest in taking GW archives and putting them into the 'live' Zimbra mailbox - that defeats the purpose of the original intension of the archive, to take old/infrequently needed emails and pull them from a live mailbox. Without converting the archive to a different format, GroupWise would still be required. By licensing this Advansys Archive2go, you one-time convert the archive to a more neutral format. Advansys includles a viewer (exe) to look at/search the converted archives. It is _not_ in a format to move to PST, or to import into Zimbra.

So, "no" to answer your two questions with regard to this tool.

[Ian Forbes]

Originally Posted by gnyce

We had no interest in taking GW archives and putting them into the 'live' Zimbra mailbox - that defeats the purpose of the original intension of the archive, to take old/infrequently needed emails and pull them from a live mailbox. Without converting the archive to a different format, GroupWise would still be required. By licensing this Advansys Archive2go, you one-time convert the archive to a more neutral format. Advansys includles a viewer (exe) to look at/search the converted archives. It is _not_ in a format to move to PST, or to import into Zimbra.

So, "no" to answer your two questions with regard to this tool.

Thanks for the information. Although this sounds like a great tool I was looking for something that would actually ingest the archived mails into Zimbra. With Zimbra's Hierarchacal Storage Management (HSM) any emails over 30 days are moved to a different tier of disk anyways (i.e. less expensive SATA drives). This places everything in one place for easy access to search - rather then having to search across Zimbra and Advansys.
Thanks for the information though.

[jonallport]

Flup!

That was me throwing my hat into the ring!!!

I too am about to embark on that self-same migration (GW 6.0.4/NW6SP9 -> ZCS 5.0.x FOSS/Ubuntu 8.x). I don't have any archive folders and about 75 live users. I plan to use the IMAP4 servers to pull GW mail and push to Zimbra is there a better solution (cheapskate FOSS user, no NE migration tools!)?

TIA

Jon

[jonallport]

Update:

Have done the migration now. Added the GW account to Zimbra (gwia.nlm /imap4) and synced

Warnings/notes
- If folders contain more than 4096 messages will not sync fully
- If users have filed their e-mail in the document store, (don't laugh, that was someone in Sales) they'll not be included in the sync
- Make a hard folder for 'Sent', not 'search result'

74 accounts, mailbox sizes between 0 and 4.8GB took about 1.5 days to do it (0800-1630, -lunch, -other work)

Hope that helps someone else on the road from Provo, UT to Sunnyvale, CA.