Barracuda Message Archiver

Administrators are also choosing the Barracuda Message Archiver because it improves the overall efficiency of email servers and storage. The Barracuda Message Archiver takes the strain off email servers by moving email storage and user traffic from the email server to the archiver.

The Barracuda Message Archiver also deduplicates and compresses email information before storage while stubbing attachments to further minimize storage and costs.

Customizable retention policies ensure the archive keeps different types of information for durations needed to comply with regulations, then frees up memory as messages are no longer needed for compliance. Here is some more information.

Easy to Use

With an intuitive web UI for system status and policy configuration, the Barracuda Message Archiver is easy to manage. Automatic firmware and security updates provide trouble-free operation.

Affordable

Competitively priced, with no per-user license fees and minimizing transactional storage costs, the Barracuda Message Archiver is the most affordable and complete email archiving solution available.

Intuitive

The web UI, Outlook add-In and mobile apps enable full-text searches using tags and message content. Users can easily search their own archives, view stored emails and forward them.

Features

Intuitive Policy, Discovery, and Compliance

Enforcing corporate content policies, compliance with regulations and supporting litigation requests are a growing part of administrators' duties. This includes managing email retention, message retrieval and delivery of relevant communications. In support of these requirements, the Barracuda Message Archiver provides standard and customizable policies as well as other features.

Retention Policies

A retention policy controls the length of time email messages are retained, whether to comply with government regulations or for company records. Litigation holds are custom policies that can be defined for specific user mailboxes.

Roles

The Barracuda Message Archiver's role-based administration feature organizes access privileges into three tiers: administrators, auditors and users. Integrated with Active Directory, the Barracuda Message Archiver immediately classifies user permissions.

Content Monitoring

The Barracuda Message Archiver enforces standards policies by scanning emails for content such as foul language, personal ID information, job search websites, and other categories. Administrators can also create custom policies to monitor user-defined keywords and phrases. At installation, administrators can quickly activate default policies and new policy definitions delivered by Energize Updates to begin monitoring for policy violations and creating an audit trail of relevant email messages.

Litigation Readiness & Discovery

By using the Barracuda Message Archiver's powerful search features, auditors and administrators can easily compile relevant messages using keywords, dates and sender/recipients and other criteria and export them. Access records and related policy violations can also be readily compiled and sent to legal counsel as requested.

Interoperability

Attachment Stubbing

On average, attachments make up 85% of the content stored on email servers. Attachments can be offloaded to the Barracuda Message Archiver and replaced with "stubs" placed in emails. Stubs link to the attachments stored in the Barracuda Email Archiver for seamless retrieval. Stubbing reduces storage and processing demands on the email server.

PST File Import

The Barracuda Message Archiver imports PST files from users' desktops or laptops. PST file and MAPI email import features let you import all legacy emails as new emails are captured to create a comprehensive, central email archive that speeds search and retrieval.

MAPI Email Import

Using Microsoft's MAPI, the Barracuda Message Archiver can import emails from Microsoft Exchange servers.

Access Anywhere

The Outlook add-in lets users search, view and interact with archived messages and manage attachment stubbing from the Outlook interface. The Barracuda Message Archiver Companion lets users search archived email from mobile devices.

Storage

Single Instance Storage

Single instance storage means the Barracuda Message Archiver intelligently removes duplicate emails and attachments from message threads. Single instance storage ensures the Barracuda Message Archiver only compresses and stores one copy of a message or attachment in a file system to optimize storage, search and retrieval.

Message Storage

Built-in and redundant storage is provided through internal and external mirroring, as well as through swappable drive trays. This lets administrators move emails from costly transaction-based storage to more affordable storage options.

Archiving

With multiple options for deployment, setting up the Barracuda Email Archiver to satisfy unique requirements is fast and intuitive. Emails can be pushed to the Barracuda Message Archiver via SMTP, and the Barracuda Message Archiver can pull emails via standard POP3 and IMAP email protocols. If an email server doesn't journal emails, the Barracuda Message Archiver can use the Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall to journal inbound and outbound emails.

Search & Retrieval

The Archive Search tool located in the Barracuda Email Archiver's web UI is ideal for performing full-text searches using tags and message content. Users can easily search personal email archives, view archived emails and forward archived emails. Users can also see the folder structure in their Exchange server.

Indexing

Using all message components including attachments, the Barracuda Message Archiver fully indexes emails. It also has the option to add tags for customized searches.

Folder Structure

The Barracuda Message Archiver maintains folder structure. Users can view and search folders through the web UI. Users can also search specific folders from the Outlook add-in.