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With the introduction of Exchange 2010, many corporations are considering how vital backups and archives are if they implement multiple database copies utilizing database availability groups (DAGs) and leveraging the ability to use cheap disk storage. Microsoft themselves have suggested that with 3, 4 or more copies of the database, there really is no need to back them up any more. Is this suitable for your company as well?

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As a Microsoft Certified Partner, we have always developed our software using standard Microsoft tools and programming interfaces in order to assure our customers that we are always accessing and processing information in a secure method and that they are not locked into a proprietary method of accessing their data. One example of this is in our Email Management Server product. In this product we use the Microsoft Extended MAPI (Messaging Application Programming Interface) for accessing, processing and archiving Exchange mailboxes, public folders and Personal Folder Files.

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If you’ve tried archiving Exchange 2010, you’ll notice that single instance storage has gone away. Since the release of Microsoft Exchange 4.0 we have been used to the reduced amount of disk space required to store messages as a result of single instance storage. This was ideal in single server single database scenarios but over time with the introduction of Exchange 2000, 2003 and 2007 the number of databases on a single server has also increased. Single instance storage (SIS) simply helped keep individual database sizes down but that didn’t address the problem of multiple copies across multiple databases.

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