Read a PST from a CD

[kyunana]

Hello, im wandering if have some way to read the PST file saved on CD´s .
Almost all of our users have PST around 1.2Gb or more. I was breaking the PST on 2 or more files and saving on a CD but i think cause the file is READ ONLY on a CD, the outlook cant read it.
Im using Win NT and Outlook 98.

 

[KeyTech]

Yea you cant read it coz its read only, and it does try to write to the .pst file as soon as you open it, what about copying it back to your HD and working on it from there? or is that defeating the purpose??? (you must untick the file for read only when you copy it back to your HD or you will have the same problems..) Jay~

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[mscallisto]

Has anyone tried a CDR-W?

 

[yizhar]

HI.

If you need to access the PST files from time to time, I suggest that you'll put them back on a local hard drive, and just back them up to a tape on your server.

I know that you'll be short in disk space in some workstations, but I don't see a better solution (storing them on the server will generate network traffic, unless the access to these files is not frequent).

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[mscallisto]

Yizhar is most correct!

We store all .pst's on a network server in "user personal" folders and perform nightly backup's with an occational restore.

One crashed hard drive and no backup can kill!

 

[butchrecon]

As stated by nearly all above, put the .pst files back on the hard drives. You cannot access them while they are on CD, Not even CDRW. It is ok to back them up to CD, just put them back on the local PC to use them. or on a network share and use user personal folders. James Collins
Field Service Engineer
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[kyunana]

Ty for the answers, but the problem is that i work on a big factory and we have here 1300 exchange users, if i let users save PST on network i will need to get a server only to this since almost all users have around 600Mb on PST.
We start to copy on CD just for a backup of the PST, after that we break it .

Ty for the try .

 

[KeyTech]

Your problem here is not the fact that you have no where to store them, but too much to store.
Get users to delete old, usless junk mail, along with large attachments etc. This will dramatically reduce the sizes of the pst's and then they could be easily stored on the server or even local drives.
You could block attachments, and even set a policy that personal mail is not allowed, or comes into a account that can be on their local drives, and work related is on the server, and will be backed up.
Have a company 'clean up day', where all users delete the old stuff etc, or else no one will do it on their own, coz "John isn't doing it so why should I..." etc. Jay~

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