Overview The UK’s largest civil service trade union, the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), serves the needs of over 250,000 members. Challenge PCS campaigns for fair pay and conditions, de­ cent pensions, and equality in the workplace. Employing a staff of around 300, half of the or ­ ganization is based in London with eight other satellite offices around the UK. The headquar ­ ters in London was already being backed up and archived by a central GroupWise Disaster Recovery server and Retain server. But the regions were set up to use db copy to the lo­ cal server, which was backed up using a tape backup. However, there was no central ar­ chiving or the ability to easily restore any mail that was more than a day old—as well as no disaster recovery solution for GroupWise.

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