1.1 GroupWise Disaster Recovery Overview

GroupWise Disaster Recovery is a disaster recovery, hot backup, and quick restore system for Micro Focus GroupWise. GroupWise Disaster Recovery integrates with GroupWise post offices and domains on NetWare, Linux and Windows to provide reliable backups. All the mail in those backups can then be examined using any Novell GroupWise client. GroupWise Disaster Recovery backs up post offices and domains from GroupWise 8 or greater.

GroupWise Disaster Recovery is a Disaster and Recovery solution for GroupWise mail systems that provides live backups and recovery for GroupWise post offices and domains. In the event of a disaster where the post office or domain is unusable or lost, GroupWise Disaster Recovery can provide a temporary post office and domain for the GroupWise system to run off of, making messages flow seamlessly, even in a crisis.

GroupWise Disaster Recovery performs this function by creating backup copies of the post office and domain databases, which it then can load with GroupWise agents. GroupWise Disaster Recovery also can load post office agents against any post office backup, allowing users to transparently restore deleted or lost mail to the live post office, directly from the user's GroupWise client. With GroupWise Disaster Recovery, losing mail in a system is no longer a crisis, and in most cases, not even an inconvenience.

Multiple GroupWise Disaster Recovery servers can also be tied together to add multiple redundant layers of protection for complete offsite backups of the GroupWise message system.

GroupWise Disaster Recovery only runs on the Linux platform and requires that one setting in GroupWise Administration be enabled, as well as on the host machine for both the GroupWise system and the GroupWise Disaster Recovery Server. GroupWise Disaster Recovery does not require eDirectory, Active Directory or any TSA components.

Setting-up GroupWise Disaster Recovery can seem to be an intimidating process, but this guide will walk you through the process. There also is online documentation, an extensive knowledgebase, full support, and consulting services available to aid you in customizing and perfecting your GroupWise Disaster Recovery system.

1.1.1 Micro Focus Family of Message Handling Products

  • Secure Messaging Gateway is a message scanning product that protects your system from malware and spam.

  • Retain Unified Archiving is an archive storage product that is designed to keep messages from GroupWise, Exchange/O365, GMail, BlackBerry, Bloomberg, Notes, mobile, social and other messaging platforms for the long term to meet data retention legal requirements and has powerful search capabilities for eDiscovery.

  • GroupWise Disaster Recovery powered by Reload for GroupWise is a hot-backup and disaster recovery product for GroupWise. It keeps a few weeks of data and can easily restore messages, calendar items, address books, and even whole users. It can also act as a fully functional Post Office in times when the GroupWise POA is down.

  • Reload for Retain is a hot-backup product for Retain. The Retain archive keeps items for the long term and often becomes the only repository of an item. Without a backup you can leave yourself open to legal liability if the items are lost before the retention period has passed. Reload for Retain provides high speed backups of your Retain archive.

  • GroupWise Reporting & Monitoring powered by Redline is a comprehensive, customizable, monitoring and reporting tool for GroupWise.

  • GroupWise Forensics powered by Reveal provides essential auditing and oversight capabilities that legal, human resources, and auditing personnel need within GroupWise.

  • GroupWise Mailbox Management powered by Vertigo is the Enterprise Mailbox Management tool for GroupWise.