Make a backup/restore of an user in Beehive

Question

It it possible to make a backup/restore(mailbox) of an user in Beehive?

Answer 1

Hello Miguel,
Well, you need place for your backup - You can say me that you store them on tapes it's less expensive than on disk - that's right it's also less efficient and quick if you have to restore your environment. You can use a dev/test environment for that - no need to install the same hardware (cpu/mem) or the same architecture - you "just" need the same space disk -
Moreover, you will install only one the machine/os/rdbms and beehive as well as the local PC.
When an user delete a mail, it is still on the trash - so whatever the client used it can recover it from there. Just configure your client to avoid to empty the trash on exit.
There are other solutions, like set up a Data Guard and apply a delay on archivelog application - all is function of your retention policy and until when on the past you accept to recover an email
Not sure to follow you, when you say that storing the wastebasket on the server will reduce you the the probabilities of having to retrieve an email from the backup. Outlook and Zimbra have the same trash folder, so for example if I delete a mail on Outlook it goes on the trash. I can see it on Zimbra & on Outlook trash folder. Now if I purge my trash you won't be able to retrieve it neither on Outlook nor on Zimbra.
About your question on the Inconsistency of trash folder between Thunderbird and Zimbra, the trash folder is as far I know created by the client, and so stored locally. Outlook and Zimbra do not use IMAP to retrieve the messages but internal protocol, that's why they share their trash folder.
Recover email is definitively on the roadmap, - unfortunately I do not have date to share - as you can imagine many customers have the same request.
Regards,
Fred