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Firebird database - replace the Firebird database on disk with the backed up Firebird database
SQL database - from the Microsoft
®
SQL Manager right-click the backed up database and select
Tasks > Restore.
Email binary source - replace the binary folder on disk with the backed up binary folder
Search index folder - replace the Search index folder on disk with the backed up Search index
folder.
6. From the Services management console, restart all GFI MailArchiver services.
Restoring an Archive Store Which is not Added in GFI MailArchiver
1. Depending on the type of Archive Store to restore, restore the applicable backed up data as
follows:
Firebird database - restore the Firebird database on disk
SQL database - from the Microsoft SQL Manager right-click the backed up database and select
Tasks > Restore.
Email binary source - restore the binary folder on disk
Search index folder - restore the search index folder on disk
Take note of the paths where all data has been restored.
2. Add the restored Archive Store in GFI MailArchiver ensuring that all paths configured during the
wizard, for example search index path or SQL database, are the paths of the restored data.
7.8.12 Moving Emails From One Database to Another
GFI MailArchiver supports various types of Archive Stores. The software enables you to move emails
from one database to another or to many other databases.
NOTE
This feature is only applicable when moving the original emails source stored on disk of
a Firebird database or SQL Server
®
file system. Emails cannot be moved from a SQL
Server
®
database when the source is stored on the SQL Server
®
database.
Examples:
A Firebird database becomes very large in size and hence slow to load data, so the administrator
decides to switch to a SQL Server
®
database.
An SQL file system stored on disc, stores emails of one whole year. It is recommended to separate
the emails to multiple databases, for example one database for each month.
Important Notes
1. It is highly recommended to backup the archive stores before moving emails. This process is
described in the Backup Archive Stores chapter of this manual.
2. Moving emails between archive stores requires a high amount of computer processing resources
and can reduce the performance of the GFI MailArchiver server substantially.