Comments on: A Quick Look at On-Premise E-mail Archiving

By: Andrew Zammit Tabona

Andrew Zammit Tabona — Fri, 20 May 2011 08:36:20 +0000

Well said Furius_Geek; thanks for your views. If I were an e-mail administrator being faced with having to restore a particular set of e-mails, I’d be more at ease knowing I had an archiving solution to help me out, rather than having to dig through backups and go through the restore process.

By: Andrew Zammit Tabona

Andrew Zammit Tabona — Fri, 20 May 2011 08:31:44 +0000

Sounds like you’ve got it nailed down to a tee, Mindy! Thanks for sharing

What you are suggesting makes perfect sense for home or SOHO users, but will probably be a headache for IT departments in larger organizations if they were to rely solely on each user individually archiving their e-mails from Outlook. This is where archiving to a central location comes in handy and makes e-mail management so much easier. Having said that, if users also want to have their own local backup strategy for their Outlook profile items then more power to them!

By: @Furius_Geek

@Furius_Geek — Wed, 18 May 2011 05:59:47 +0000

For me, email archiving is more practical than backup. One superiority worth mentioning is that the former can be used, applied, and accessed as a SaaS (software as a service) aka on-demand software.

The growth of cloud-based computing can be attributed to the rising demand of email archiving solutions.

Moreover, aside from SaaS, email archiving gives more storage optimization and offers more organized data than the backup.

By: Mindy Atkins

Mindy Atkins — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 11:46:40 +0000

My Microsoft Outlook automatically tells me to archive my email messages. The reminder comes once a month. I used to archive my email once a year but i dont recommend this.

I dont rely solely on archiving. I also backup my emails, schedules, tasks, and notes to my external hard drive.

It’s better safe than sorry.