6.12 Backing 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.

If the system administrator has created a restore area and has backed up the entire GroupWise system, or if you have backed up your local mailbox in Remote or Caching mode, you can open a backup copy of your mailbox to view and restore items. You need Read and Write access to the restore area if it is on the network.

This section contains the following topics:

6.12.1 Backing Up Your 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, then click OK.

You can also set up an automatic backup:

  1. In Remote or Caching mode, click Tools > Options, then click General.

    or

    On a Macintosh, click GroupWise > Preferences, then click General.

  2. Click the Backup Options tab, then select Backup caching 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.

6.12.2 Restoring Items from Backup

  1. Click File > Open Backup.

    GroupWise Restore Path dialog box

  2. Type the full path or browse to the path of the backed-up mailbox, then type your password if required.

  3. Select the item you want to restore, click Actions > Restore.

  4. To exit your backed-up mailbox, click File > Open Backup.