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MoFo and Disaster Recovery August 24, 2004 Bruce Friedman Infrastructure Manager

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1 MoFo Email and Disaster Recovery August 24, 2004 Bruce Friedman Infrastructure Manager BFriedman@MoFo.com

2 Attorney Expectation ŸApril 2003 – Email should never be down for more than thirty minutes Managing Partner ŸJanuary 2004 – Email should never be down more than five minutes Managing Partner after LAN outage

3 Challenges for Email Continuality Ÿ24 Global Exchange servers ŸRunaway Disk Space §2 GB limit on individual mailbox size §100+% annual growth of email stores §Over 2 terabytes of information stores §One message store over 280 GBs ŸBackup and Restore Management (tapes)

4 Short Outage Recovery Plan ŸMessage Ones EMS service ŸWeb-based email service Users retain their MoFo email address ŸDaily sync for contact, distribution lists and calendar data ŸEmail syncs back to MoFo after event ŸActivate by user, group, server or firm-wide ŸEMS Activation Status on our Remote Access Portal

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6 Longer Outage Recovery Plan ŸActivate EMS ŸCall for Quick Ship Servers from HP to designated MoFo site ŸRestore from tape

7 Future Strategy ŸPhase I – Storage Management §Reduce email stores through archiving - KVS deployment in progress §Reduce server count through consolidation §Email stores on SAN ŸPhase 2 - Replication §Real time host based tool in place for Document Management System using DoubleTake §Replicate email using SAN based replication tools to backup locations

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10 Archiving ŸPurchased KVS ŸPurchased EMC Centera storage appliances §SF and NY locations §Replication between appliances ŸCurrently socializing archiving policies §Archive over 6 months old §Retention of 5 years §Ability to delete from archive ŸMove email to Filesurf during retention period ŸFirm deployment in the fall

11 Server Consolidation ŸExchange consolidation is part of a longer term project for overall server consolidation ŸSAN storage for Exchange stores ŸRegional data centers ŸWait and see if Exchange 2003 & Outlook 2003 (client caching) facilitates consolidation

12 Email Policy Ÿ2gb limit on Exchange mailbox size. ŸItems older than 3 months in sent mail folder are moved to deleted mail folder ŸPurge deleted mail folder after 7 days §Recoverable for up to 14 days Ÿ25mb limit for PDF attachments Ÿ15mb limit for all other attachments


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