Retain is an email archiving solution for Novell GroupWise® that integrates directly within GroupWise. Retain takes advantage of GroupWise SmartPurge functionality, ensuring all email is archived based upon specific criteria set by the administrator. Retain also utilizes the latest Novell SOAP API as its base data collector. Retain can be easily installed and configured to archive all GroupWise email in a matter of minutes and provides extensive and easy to use search tools to achieve full control over your GroupWise archives.

Features
• Enterprise Archiving
• DBMS Support

One of the most common design considerations for archiving is where to store the data.

This seems like a fairly simply solved issue until you run into issues of scale. Quantity.

Some file systems have definite limits on the number of files you can store, on the total size of the volume(s) and whether or not you can just add to it.

It is vitally important that you overestimate your total storage needs before choosing where to store your data.

If you choose a file system with a hard limit and a year or two down the road, you run out of space ... you might be unable to continue to use your system. You might even have to create a new archive. That diminishes the usefulness of having everything in one place.