User`s guide

15-54 Back up and restore Meridian Mail data

Overview

Standard 1.0 System Administration Guide January 1998

Overview

Introduction

This section provides information on restoring from a Selective

backup.

Description

The Selective Restore feature allows for an online restore of

users’ messages, individually specified Personal Distribution

Lists (PDLs), or multimedia services. An entire mailbox is not

restored, only the messages and PDLs for an existing mailbox.

When restoring a user’s messages and PDLs, the user is locked

out of his or her mailbox until the restore is complete.

Restoring messages

and PDLs

In restoring both messages and PDLs, if one already exists, it is

not overwritten. For VMUIF users, no message will be restored

to a mailbox once it is full. For MMUIF users, all messages are

restored unless the Call Answering Blocking Factor is set.

Call Answering Blocking Factor limits the number of call

answering messages that can be deposited in a mailbox once the

number of messages in the mailbox exceeds the mailbox storage

limit.

Restoring multimedia

services

Restoring multimedia services can be done by service ID, or by

restoring all services.

Restore exceptions

Data not restored from a selective backup includes mailbox

configuration such as passwords, auto-login, storage limits,