Recovery & Discovery Archives
Email messages can be exported from the archive to satisfy a variety of use cases. Different archive types may be created depending on the use-case, and use different tools depending on the type.
After you have created an archive, you can use the RecoveryManager to restore messages to user mailboxes. See Use RecoveryManager to Restore Archives.
Email messages that are contained in a Recovery or Discovery Archive are kept until the archive is deleted, regardless of any applicable retention polices. After the archive is deleted, control of each message’s purge status reverts to the highest priority applicable retention policy.
NOTE
Recovery Archives cannot be exported by Export Manager. If you need to use Export Manager, create a Discovery Archive.
The sections below describe how to create Historical Mail archives: