Re: Fw: DAOS recovery

[Chris Whisonant <chris.whisonant@xxxxxxxxx>]

There's a (default) 30-day retention period so that if he deleted 600
messages today, then no .nlo daos files would be deleted for 30 days if they
were attachments that were only referenced in his mail db.

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Thanks,
Chris
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On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 10:20 AM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Just sent out a memo to our department.  I had a question about DAOS
> recovery.  What say ye?
>
> Rob Berendt
> --
> Group Dekko Services, LLC
> Dept 01.073
> Dock 108
> 6928N 400E
> Kendallville, IN 46755
> http://www.dekko.com
>
>
> <forward>
>
> Probably the parties most interested in this will be Peggy and Laura but
> in case there are others I sent this to the whole department.
>
> We have fired up DAOS on Domino.  What this basically does is if someone
> shotguns a large attachment to everyone then instead of it being in
> everyone's mail file it will be in a central location and the mail file
> will have a link to it.  Now, there should be no noticeable difference to
> the users.  They won't have to click on anything funny or anything - same
> o, same o.  If they replicate locally the attachment will be in their mail
> file.  It's server based only.  It even supports differences on servers.
> Like, for now, NOTES01 does not have DAOS running but NOTES03 does.  If
> you replicate between servers (which we do) 01 will have the attachments
> in it and 03 won't.
>
> Why this affects Laura and Peggy.
> Let's say Bob Belschner accidentally deletes 600 emails and he wants them
> back.  In times past we would restore his mail file to some temporary
> directory, and paste the deleted messages back into his live mail file.
> This should still work - he just may not have any of the attachments.  :-(
> I'm still trying to figure this out.  In theory, the attachments are
> stored in this funny DAOS directory on the server.  And through some
> intense processing it may only copy it there if someone else has the exact
> attachment.  And it will only delete the attachment from the DAOS
> directory when all copies of the email go away.  So maybe the links would
> still be intact in this case?  How good are you at craps?
>
> </forward>
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