Archive recommendations requested.

[Javamahn]

I am currently doing the pst shuffle. Our company requires us to maintain a journal mailbox of all email passing through our 1 E2K Ent. server and then move all the email to a pst for archiving to DVDs. Occasionally for legal reasons, they want us to be able to search this mess of an archive system and then send them copies of all email transactions from the result as a single pst file. We have over 40 DVDs of pst files and the stack is growing fast. Searching this many archives is a tedious process and fast becoming impossible. What archiving solutions are available that will let me export the results of a search into a single pst to be able to comply with corporates demands in the event of a legal action? I was going to try GFI's Mail Archiver but it does not seem to me to be able to export results to pst.

 

[xmsre]

How about Ontrack Powercontrols. This tool allows you to take a live or dead store, from disk or tape, and search & extract mail from it. If you use powercontrols as the basis of your archive/legal search function, you would get rid of the pst shuffle, and simply keep a copy of the backup. When you need to do a search, simply use the tool to open the store from the backup media and search it.

http://www.ontrack.com/powercontrols/

 

[maxsterling21]

We use a hosted solution called FrontBridge, they are now a subsidary of Microsoft. There are others out there but so far this service has been great. Also included in the service is virus & spam protection and custom filtering.

 

[Zelandakh]

Do you need PST exporting support? Easier to leave it online.
GFi Mail Archiver
Ontrack Powercontrols
KVS Enterprise Vault
Aftermail (now part of Quest)
There's another one but I can't recall its name that is similar to KVS but a good deal cheaper

 

[Tricky100]

We use KVS Enterprise vault to archive everything older than 6 months and then some NAS servers to store all the data, had it for a few months and has been working well and very easy to search as well.