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WORM Storage
At this time, the WORM features of the SAM file system are not certified for use with the Enterprise Vault software.
SAMBA Support
Because Storage Archive Manager is based on the Solaris OS for SPARC and x64 platforms, SAMBA
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software, which is
required to make a SAM file system available to servers running Microsoft Windows SAMBA, ships as standard with the
Solaris OS and is supported by Sun Microsystems.
A SAM file system accessed via SAMBA is certified with Enterprise Vault. Enterprise Vault stores ACL and ownership-
related information about the archived data in its database, so SAMBA does not need to be integrated with the
Windows Domain or with Active Directory Services.
SAM Archiving Policies
To allow Enterprise Vault users to browse and search their email archives, one of the following SAM archiving policies
must be implemented:
● Option 1: If the first available SAM copy of a file is on tape, the file must not be released because the latency
of retrieving a file from tape causes issues with end-user tools.
● Option 2: If the first available SAM copy of a file is in a SAM disk-based archive, the file can be released.
This solution implements Option 2.
Making Copy 2
It is strongly recommended that Storage Archive Manager is configured to make a second copy of the archived data;
many organizations mandate that two copies of every archived file must be made. Possible targets for Copy 2 are:
● An external tape device/tape library
● A disk archive accessed via NFS. This could be another Sun Fire X4500 Server.
● A remote instance of Storage Archive Manager, which can make a second copy to a tape library or disk archive
4 Samba is an Open Source/Freeware suite that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients. Samba is freely available under the
GNU General Public License and can be downloaded from http://www.samba.org. Samba is packaged with Solaris 10 OS.
Configuring the Sun Fire X4500 Server as Network Attached Archival Storage for Symantec Enterprise Vault 5