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I love Chris Toohey. I really do. In fact, he saved my butt this very morning by helping me correct some broken links in my blog entry. But he also posted this blog entry, which caused me a bit of hearburn, not because of him, but because of the technology he wrote about. Since I trust Chris implicitly, I got excited when I saw his entry about using Google Sync to publish his Notes Calendar to the web for internet users to see using my Blackberry as middleware. So I immediately signed up for a google account (no, I did not have one before because gmail is way inferior to Notes). I then started synchronizing my Notes cal to that Google cal. That was a week ago. First, I noticed that it wasn't synching everything. OK, no biggie. I can deal with that. It even told me that it couldn't sync everything because "another program" was (that'd be Notes). Fine, at least some were going through, so I left it going for a week. Interestingly, it was synching most (not all) of my new calendar entries. But I noticed it was draining my Blackberry battery, and I can't afford that at Lotusphere, so I decided to "sign out" of Google Sync on my Blackberry. It warned me that it would delete anything it had synched, so I looked for an option to NOT do that - no such option. So I figured, Google is smart, surely they wouldn't delete the entries that I created in Notes, right? WRONG. It wiped out 8 weeks of my appointments, and the Blackberry diligently sent cancellation notices on all of the meetings to the participants I had invited. Nice. Thanks Google (not so much).

But there is a (relatively) happy ending to this tale.  Since I am running the Notes 8.5 client and 8.5 mail template (on a Notes 8.0 server BTW), I simply went to my Notes calendar and clicked Add Calendar / Google Calendar, provided my credentials, and BAM, there are all of the Google calendar entries on my Notes calendar again. Thanks Lotus (sincerely).

Yes folks, that's an 87% disk space recovery (from the active production files). Your mileage may vary .Maybe we just have a lot of attachments, but the mere potential is worth the upgrade.

User	Before DAOS	After DAOS
Allen	66,664,348	13,369,344
Colin	121,686,570	27,262,976
Chris	504,170,773	115,867,648
David	660,534,209	158,859,264
Jennifer	124,751,321	44,302,336
Jimmy	7,821,658,977	796,917,760
Luz	237,849,503	26,738,688
Mike	320,268,903	49,283,072
Robert	38,714,523	17,563,648
Scott	2,025,744,098	214,433,792
Sheri	743,389,930	158,859,264
Ted	157,455,235	38,273,024
Tim	288,323,304	51,118,080
TOTAL	13,111,211,694	1,712,848,896
SAVINGS	11,398,362,798	87%

*** Update *** My oversight, not including the size of the DAOS store, which is about 7 GB. STILL, that is 4 GB back, and a 33% reduction in storage and from a sample of just 13 users. In a larger organization, this would almost certainly increase since more users would have more attachments in common.