Scalix Calendar Backup

[blackied]

Hi, I set up a scalix system for some people that wanted it only for the shared calendar. atm it's running 11.0.2 and I'm going to upgrade it later this week hopefully. the one issue that's giving me a headache, is that the boss wants to be able to have a backups of the calendars so he can open them anywhere should something happen, possibly as an ics file or something. my question is, can this be accomplished? otherwise, all the work that went into setting this up was for nothing.

[Valerion]

Try the WebDAV service and export it from there, as you can access it programatically that way. Or do an export to PST or similar using Outlook.

[blackied]

That's all well and good, but is there a way to do it automatically at all? also, once all the outlooks are connected, would these calendars (being in public folders) be kept in the local message store anyway? The thing is, the boss is somewhat paranoid about things going wrong and the server possibly going down. it hasn't and probably won't, but he wants a way to take the calendars and read them away from the server in case it should go down.

[Valerion]

With an Outlook SmartCache profile, your own mailbox (but not others you open or the Public Folders) are kept on your client PC, and you can access them without having a connection to the server. If you set up your profile without SmartCache, you need a connection to access your mailbox.

If you want it in other formats, you will need to pull it out via the Web Services API and store it somewhere.

[blackied]

ok, that's out. one more thing. is it possible to change the location of the scalix data on the server after it's installed? my boss has his data on a system drive, but wants it all on a the new internal raid, cause he's also got the system drive mirrored onto a second rack mount, so they need to be able to have the data accessible on both drives.

[Valerion]

As long as the data is mounted on /var/opt/scalix, the server will be happy. So transfer it to the RAID and mount the RAID at that location and you're good to go.

Of course you may want to look in the failover stuff on the Scalix wiki. May give you some tips to have both servers running simultaneously.