Google Message Archiving Administration Guide - Manual (Page 23)

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Personal Archive
Optional feature
The Personal Archive is a user-level subset of the corporate archive. It provides a
user with Web-based access to only his or her archived email messages.
Users can access their archives at any time to recover (export) messages that
were lost or deleted from your email server, or to read their messages when your
server is unavailable.
Because users no longer need to store their email messages on your email server
for long periods, the Personal Archive can improve the performance of your server
and reduce the time required to recover from a server outage.
You can select which users have access to the Personal Archive. With access, the
Archive tab appears in a user’s Message Center, as shown in the following figure:
For more information about Message Center and how to provide user access,
refer to the Message Security Administration Guide.
How Message Archiving Captures Email Messages
The following overview describes how messages flow through your message
security service, and how Message Archiving captures and stores them in the
archive.
Methods of Archiving Email Messages
Email messages enter the archive differently, depending on which archiving
option you set up for your company: inbound/outbound archiving or journal
archiving.