| Archive vs backup [message #144894] |
Fri, 25 January 2019 23:49  |
abiaresi
Messages: 20
Registered: July 2017
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Kind of novice in this area and I need all the help you can provide. 
One of my customer needs to archive the company's email for regulatory compliance.
I was thinking about using Kerio Connect to archive emails on a NAS.
My questions are:
should I both archive and backup ?
If yes, why ?
Isn't archiving on a Nas already a form of backup ?
What are the differences and the best practice recommended ?
Thank you
Alberto
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| Re: Archive vs backup [message #144899 is a reply to message #144894] |
Sun, 27 January 2019 17:41  |
mayall
Messages: 97
Registered: October 2006
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The Kerio Archiving feature is what you should use for regulatory compliance and is only for the emails.
The Kerio Backup feature is what you should use to recover from a problem at the server. For example, if the server HD became damaged. It contains much more than just the email and allows a complete server recovery as of the moment the backup was created.
> should I both archive and backup ?
> If yes, why ?
Yes, everyone running Kerio Connect should use the Backup feature so that the entire Kerio Connect configuration and all data is recoverable.
Archiving for regulatory compliance requires some sort of archiving that allows recovery of emails if the past. That is not the same as a backup, which contains a wider range of data but does not go all the way back in time (unless you save every backup which would be a huge duplication of data) and is not easily searchable.
My experience with regulatory archiving is that 3rd party firms are a regulatory requirement. You simply forward all email to the the archiving firm. It is not cheap.
> Isn't archiving on a Nas already a form of backup ?
You could call it a backup but it is not useful for recovery.
Will Mayall
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| Re: Archive vs backup [message #144925 is a reply to message #144910] |
Wed, 30 January 2019 14:27 |
Maerad
Messages: 275
Registered: August 2013
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If the customer needs an archive for regulatory compliance, I would suggest their mails are important. So you should setup a local backup and offsite if possible (tons of possibilities).
The archive is what you want for the regulatory compliance. This way EVERY mail gets archived in a folder and can be zipped by end of the month. Also you can enable a forword of the mail to another service.
Before you do ANYTHING else, GET the customers regulatory compliance requirements! Those are REALLY important! You need to know if the archive has to be set, saved, backupped whatever in a special way.
The easiet way would be a local PC/miniserver (HP Microserver are chaep and good) with something like mailstore software. Or some kind of DMS that can accept and archive mails revision secure. That thing would also need a backup then. Personally I don't like cloud services for that. For offsite backup yes, but not for the archive itself. If a mail gets lost or the connection has a hiccup... bad. So, I would say on premise.
https://www.mailstore.com/
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| Re: Archive vs backup [message #144926 is a reply to message #144925] |
Wed, 30 January 2019 15:28 |
abiaresi
Messages: 20
Registered: July 2017
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Thank you guys, I also did a ton of research and I have a better vision of the subject now.
I don't like cloud services either. I'm considering copying the archive files to a Synology NAS that the customer already owns.
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| Re: Archive vs backup [message #144954 is a reply to message #144894] |
Fri, 01 February 2019 16:41 |
afisher
Messages: 26
Registered: April 2011
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I have used two different appliances to archive mail with Kerio, Arcmail and Datacove. Both did the job but I like the Datacove much better. It had a much nicer interface and a few features the Arcmail didn't.
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