Benefits of SharePoint Archiving
The benefits of email archiving are storage management, retention and legal discovery.
It is highly likely that you are already using an archiving solution for Microsoft Exchange and perhaps you also archive your network files shares. But, have you considered the benefits of archiving for SharePoint?
SharePoint is natural application to manage file sharing, collaboration and content sharing. With the introduction of MOSS 2007, its popularity has grown rapidly.
SharePoint’s success brings challenges in storage growth, item level restore, retention and compliance. Just like Exchange Server, when SharePoint farms grow, performance suffers, recovery times lengthen and compliance risk increases.
Archiving solutions that benefit Exchange benefit SharePoint in the same way. Archive solutions archive (copy) documents and content types from SharePoint to a centralized repository and the original files can be replaced with stub files to reduce storage.
The resulting archive data is managed according to retention policy and the content can be easily searched for legal discovery.
I recommend that you consider the benefits of archiving for SharePoint. It is better to get an early jump on storage growth, and proactively preserve SharePoint records, before an unscheduled event occurs, such as a major law suit.
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