1.1 Overview

GroupWise Disaster Recovery is a disaster recovery, hot backup, and quick restore system for Novell 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.