Bruce's Blog

I downloaded version 1.1 today.   I ran it against one of the files which was hanging on Version 1.0 and it worked just fine.  I then started running it against our whole mail archive directory.  After it finished (it took about 8 1/2 hours), I got the results.  We have 213 NSF's taking up 214G with almost 1 million attachments.  If we implement V8.5 & DAOS, we will be taking up only 23G in the NSF files and 85G in the DAOS store.  This will give us an overall savings of almost 118G (49%).  That's awesome.  This feature alone may justify our upgrade to version 8.5 now instead of who knows when.  And the best part, is that I'll get the benefits of everything else (ID Vault, XPages, etc) as a "freebie".  Thanks IBM/Lotus!!!!!!!!!!!

I downloaded the tool and started looking at how DAOS would impact our environment.  We do server-based archiving, so I started with the archive mail files.  Currently (on Domino 8.02 servers with 7.02 clients & mail templates), we use a little over 200Gb of space.  It looks like we will be somewhere in the 35 - 40% space reduction range if we implete V8.5 & DAOS.  This is just great.  The only problem I have had is that the DAOS Estimator tool hangs on some of the mail files.   It ran against one 1.7G file for about 12 hours before I stopped it.  Anyone else run into anything like this?