OFFILES Cleanup

How do I determine the Reference count?
This is my Plan tell me if you see an area to modify.....
1. Do a backup with Symantec BackupExec 12.5 using on the Netware 6.5 server TSAFSGW.ncf that has in it:
LOAD SYS:\SYSTEM\TSAFSGW /EnableGW=TrueLOAD /HOME-VOL1:\WPDOMAIN\USERS_PO
2. Also do a DBCOPY
3. Run stand alone GWCHECK "Expire/Reduce Messages" with the Misc TAB selected and put in the "Support Options:" FORCECLEAN
4. Check to see if the Old files are gone.
5. Wait for the Calls if any......
6. Repeat on each Post Office

Is this a good Plan?




>>> Michael Bell<mikebell90@no-mx.forums.novell.com> 02-Nov-09 12:48 >>>

dkamp < wrote:

> Our Post offices OFFILES folders are full of files as old as 1997.
> We have a weekly job to purge older that 183 Days on all Post offices
> (6 GW 7.03 Post offices)
> Q1. What can I do to purge this stuff?


Try (after BACKUP) FORCECLEAN - it's a gwcheck secret option.


> Q2. Is there a chance that it might actually be valid stuff?


Sure, I suppose somebody could have autodated their life 20 years in
advance. Appointments are subject to that kind of vaguery - the
created/delivered date isn't as important as the scheduled date :)

But probably not.


> Q3. If a user Archives mail, all of it including the attachment is
> actually moved to their Archive location isn't it?
>


If the reference count is now 0 (no one else is using a shared
attachment), it is supposed to be removed from the online store.

>