You look like a standup kinda guy <| sep |> Have you tried turning it off and on again ? <| sep |> Why would you fry a diggerdingledangledungle ? <| sep |> We do have an offsite archive but it doesn ' t cover the full seven years , I think we implemented it 3 4 years ago or so . We had the option to send them an encrypted hard drive of all the . eml ' s we want loaded but that never happened . We have considered using that though to lighten the load on our environment but since it doesn ' t go back far enough yet we have to wait . Unless of course there ' s some way to suck out years 2 4 but leave 1 2 and 4 7 . Your environment design points are interesting . We upgraded to 2010 around 2012 or 2013 I believe and I assume I wasn ' t involved at the time they had us do a separate CAS as a best practice . We have talked about setting up a DAG but my boss said he read somewhere that it ' s not a great idea in a virtual environment . I don ' t remember why , I think he said something about replication issues . We ' ll have to research that point further . Right now I think we ' re looking at upgrading to 2016 next fiscal year so maybe a redesign is in order . We haven ' t discussed if we would be doing it or if it would be contracted out , I imagine the latter since that ' s how our 2010 setup was done . Thanks for the information .