Best approach to reduce size of 400GB PO (yikes!)

Hi fellow Groupwise gurus,
Am taking a position with a new company that has just informed me they have a 400GB PO message store. I informed them that, uh yea, this is a bit of a problem. So, I am starting to consider best way(s) to deal with this. They are on NetWare 6.5 with Groupwise 7.03. My inclination is to take them to GW 8 because we can do an in place upgrade leaving GW on NetWare for the time being (they can't do the 2012 upgrade and Linux migration, they say, until next year). I would rather have them on GW8 for stability reasons and better support, 7.03 being so old now. I know we could (and perhaps should) create another PO and move users to reduce the size of the main PO. Not sure yet, however, if we have hardware resources to setup another server (although I guess we could just load a 2nd instance of the POA at, say, Port 1678). Retention is obviously a problem here as it is likely that nobody has deleted or purged anything for many, many years (and there are quite possibly less than 50 users, I believe, on this PO!). I would love to get them on Retain, but again that is not an option until next year. We could have them start archiving using the Groupwise client archiving feature, but that does create another set of files outside of the PO that need to be backed up reliably. And finally, we could have people delete but I am not sure that is a viable option. Any suggestions? FYI - they are having to restart the POA on a regular basis due to POA instability and unresponsiveness. Plus, backups take forever, of course. Thanks.
Don

On 04.05.2012 02:26, djhess wrote:
>
> Hi fellow Groupwise gurus,
> Am taking a position with a new company that has just informed me they
> have a 400GB PO message store. I informed them that, uh yea, this is a
> bit of a problem.
And that is a problem why?
The biggest PO I support currently is 2,5TB. Runs without a hitch.
> So, I am starting to consider best way(s) to deal
> with this.
Leave it alone, and reconsider your stance what is a "problem" for
groupwise? ;)
> Not sure yet, however, if we have hardware
> resources to setup another server (although I guess we could just load a
> 2nd instance of the POA at, say, Port 1678).
And the latter, running on the same server, would only further increase
the total size of the data, but else not have any positive effect.
> Any suggestions? FYI - they are having to
> restart the POA on a regular basis due to POA instability and
> unresponsiveness.
Which is almost certainly unrelated to it's size. Before I'd make any
changes, I would want to *know* the cause of those problems. Post some
details of what exactly happens, and we'll be able to help with that.
CU,
Massimo Rosen
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