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Re:Stop the Madness Called Email by JimmyL on Sunday September 13, 2009 @04:44PM (#820558)
>> It is more likely to get lost over time through disaster. Unless you're in the IT group, chances are you have a lot more control over the backup retention policy and disaster recovery procedures of your CMS than your email system. [...]

I don't buy this assumption. If you're in a company where the points of this article are an issue, in my experience you have the exact same control over your CMS as your email. In both cases, corporate IT will be the guys installing and managing the solution, and they're probably more experienced at backing up Outlook than whatever solution you come up with and foist on them.

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Re:Stop the Madness Called Email by gengstrand on Tuesday September 15, 2009 @02:10PM (#824372)
Not necessarily so. Email is usually company wide so the backup can be extremely large which increases the chances that it will fail. Your CMS may only be for your department or division so its backup will most likely be much smaller. As far as the actual procedures for conducting a backup, that's usually not too complicated.

By the way, Outlook is only the email client. The back end is called Microsoft Exchange.

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