Make Back up Copy of Everything in Cabinet

Novell Cool Solutions: Question & Answer

Posted: 7 Oct 2004

Q:
GM wrote: I just want to make a back up copy of everything that's in my filing cabinet w/o removing everything to an archive. Is there a way to do that? (I'm a GroupWise user, not an administrator.)

A:
In the GroupWise Documentation see: Backing Up Your Mailbox or In your GroupWise Client Help, search for Back Up. You'll find the following instructions:

To back up your mailbox

Your system administrator typically backs up your network mailbox on a regular basis. You can back up your local mailbox if you want to have an additional copy of your mailbox, or if you want to back up information that is no longer in your network mailbox.

1. To manually back up your local mailbox in Remote or Caching mode, click Tools > Backup Mailbox.
2. Specify the location for the backup, if prompted > click OK.

You can also set up an automatic backup:

1. In Remote or Caching mode, click Tools > Options > double-click Environment.
2. Click the Backup Options tab > select Backup Remote Mailbox.
3. Specify the location for the backup. The default location is C:\NOVELL\GROUPWISE\BACKUP.
4. Specify how often you want to back up your mailbox.
5. If you want, select Do Not Prompt Before Performing Backup.

There's also this cool tip that was sent in a while ago. See if it works for you.

Create Copy of Ex-employee's Mailbox http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/gwmag/features/tips/t_tip_hit_the_road_backup_gw.html

If anyone else has a solution, please send it to gwmag@novell.com and we'll post it as a tip.

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