Complete Backup

With GroupWise SmartPurge, no sent or received e-mail or calendar items can be removed from the GroupWise message store until it is backed up. This product takes advantage of this feature by integrating with SmartPurge so you can assure that every single item is in security.

Its small security files sizes make it stand out from other security solutions for GroupWise. Daily (incremental) backups for post offices through this product only back up changes. It then immediately links the newly security files up data with previously backed up data. That means this product daily backups are only 1/8th of the total size of the post office, but each daily security file is effectively as usable as a full security file.

Reload is the fastest backup solution for GroupWise because it uses multiple threads. Reload is even faster than the NetWare TSA! Read the Backup Speed Examples section to see how fast Reload backups really are. 

The quality of backups by Reload is unparalleled. Everything is backed up by Reload. Even items received during the time of the backup are fully backed up by Reload. 

Once items are in the Reload backup, although users can access their mailbox, they cannot purge items in the Reload backup. 

Specific users can be excluded from the SmartPurge feature as needed. One customer wanted an executive to be excluded from not being able to purge items from their trash before it was backed up. This is very easy to enable.

Incremental backups can be pulled once a day or several times a day. Time is the greatest factor affecting how often a backup can be pulled. 

The Scheduling system for GWAVA Reload is very simple, but has more advanced scheduling. For example you can configure the GWAVA Reload server to do such and such action on every third Thursday of the month. Or on the 25th day of the month do such and such. 

Reload full backups are very time-efficient. Reload only requires pulling off the data the very first time a profile is backed up. A master copy of the data is kept on the Reload server and fully synchronized with the live post office at the time of the full backup. Here are two real-life profiles from two different customer sites:

GWAVA Reload can create a single tape archive (*.tar) file that contains a full week backup set. The tape archive file is large, but because it is just one file, backing it up to tape or retrieving it from tape is very simple. For example for one customer with a 50 Gigabyte post office, their weekly tape archive which contains 7 days of backups fully contained in one file is approximately 57 Gigabytes.

You can configure your GWAVA Reload server to push the tape archive to a tape storage system. Plus, if you want to integrate your tape backup software agent to pull backups only from the Reload server, simply point the backup software to the "export" directories associated with each Reload profile. Reload is easily integrated into currently existing tape backup schemes. Reload is a near-term restoration system that makes it so that tape backup systems get less wear and tear. Since it saves so much time doing backups, GroupWise Administrators, Backup Administrators, Users, and Auditors will all appreciate Reload. 

The Reload server can be configured to "archive" data that no longer should be kept on the Reload server. Once data is archived off, it is no longer managed by Reload. For example, GWAVA Reload could be configured to archive data off of the Reload server after two or three weeks. The archive location might be a NAS device or some other large cheap storage solution.