Difference between revisions of "Reload System Design"
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| − | How you | + | How you implement your Reload system depends on what your GroupWise is hosted on. |
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| + | Reload is a backup system and recovery system. It is built around the idea that 2 is 1 and 1 is none, in other words. if you have two copies of your data then in something happens you still have one copy available. | ||
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| + | Reload can be configured save a backup of your production system, send a copy to an offsite server and to a cloud host to maximize data safety. | ||
==Reload for GroupWise== | ==Reload for GroupWise== | ||
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| + | Reload for GroupWise backs up your domain and post office(s) so you can restore items and users. There is also a disaster recovery mode that allows you to use the Reload server as a POA if a POA goes down. | ||
===GroupWise on Linux=== | ===GroupWise on Linux=== | ||
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*Collector | *Collector | ||
*Server | *Server | ||
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| + | ====Collector Model==== | ||
| + | The collector model is built for speed. Backups that take too long to create are not very useful. | ||
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| + | The collector is a Linux software agent that makes a copy locally on the post office server and then uses rsync to send it to up to three Reload servers. | ||
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| + | ====Server==== | ||
| + | The server model uses DBCopy across NFS to copy the production POA across the network to the Reload server. | ||
===GroupWise on Windows=== | ===GroupWise on Windows=== | ||
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==Reload for Retain== | ==Reload for Retain== | ||
| + | Retain is our email archiving product which can hold billions of items. Over time items are removed from the production email system and so Retain ends up holding the only copy of data. This is bad from a data safety point of view. Since Retain stores items in a very large (16.7+ million) sub-directory structure, many backup programs struggle to transfer it all in a reasonable time. | ||
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| + | We had a customer that was attempting to do daily backups of Retain which were taking 40 hours to complete. That was not a functional solution. We created Reload for Retain and once the initial backup was complete daily backup times were reduced to 40 minutes, saving two orders of magnitude in time. | ||
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| + | ===Reload Agent=== | ||
| + | The Reload Agent handles the transfer of the Retain archive, index, and database. It is a Linux-based program and can be placed on the Retain server, Reload server or an intermediate server. | ||
===Retain on Linux=== | ===Retain on Linux=== | ||
| − | *You | + | *You may place the Reload Agent on the Retain Server or another server. |
===Retain on Windows=== | ===Retain on Windows=== | ||
*You must place the Reload agent on the Reload server or on an intermediate Linux server. | *You must place the Reload agent on the Reload server or on an intermediate Linux server. | ||
Revision as of 15:59, 1 February 2017
How you implement your Reload system depends on what your GroupWise is hosted on.
Reload is a backup system and recovery system. It is built around the idea that 2 is 1 and 1 is none, in other words. if you have two copies of your data then in something happens you still have one copy available.
Reload can be configured save a backup of your production system, send a copy to an offsite server and to a cloud host to maximize data safety.
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Reload for GroupWise
Reload for GroupWise backs up your domain and post office(s) so you can restore items and users. There is also a disaster recovery mode that allows you to use the Reload server as a POA if a POA goes down.
GroupWise on Linux
If GroupWise is on Linux, there are two models for backing up the data:
- Collector
- Server
Collector Model
The collector model is built for speed. Backups that take too long to create are not very useful.
The collector is a Linux software agent that makes a copy locally on the post office server and then uses rsync to send it to up to three Reload servers.
Server
The server model uses DBCopy across NFS to copy the production POA across the network to the Reload server.
GroupWise on Windows
If GroupWise is on Windows, you may only use the Server model for backing up the data.
Reload for Retain
Retain is our email archiving product which can hold billions of items. Over time items are removed from the production email system and so Retain ends up holding the only copy of data. This is bad from a data safety point of view. Since Retain stores items in a very large (16.7+ million) sub-directory structure, many backup programs struggle to transfer it all in a reasonable time.
We had a customer that was attempting to do daily backups of Retain which were taking 40 hours to complete. That was not a functional solution. We created Reload for Retain and once the initial backup was complete daily backup times were reduced to 40 minutes, saving two orders of magnitude in time.
Reload Agent
The Reload Agent handles the transfer of the Retain archive, index, and database. It is a Linux-based program and can be placed on the Retain server, Reload server or an intermediate server.
Retain on Linux
- You may place the Reload Agent on the Retain Server or another server.
Retain on Windows
- You must place the Reload agent on the Reload server or on an intermediate Linux server.
