Enterprise Vault™ Introduction and Planning

The role of the Storage service can be summarized as follows:

• The Storage service accepts items for archiving from the archiving tasks. If possible, it generates a text or HTML version of each item, which the Indexing service uses to compile indexing data for the item. The Storage service compresses and stores the items (and the text or HTML versions) in the appropriate archives.

  The default content converters in Enterprise Vault cannot convert some file types to text or HTML. As Enterprise Vault supports Windows IFilters, you may be able to procure a suitable IFilter for file types in your environment that are not supported by the default content converters. Also, in the default configuration, very large files (larger than 50 MB) are not converted.

  Information about each item that is archived is stored in the Vault Store database.

• The Storage service responds to requests from the retrieval tasks to restore items.

• The Storage service monitors open partitions to identify those that have met their partition rollover criteria.

• The Storage service responds to requests to view archived items. It can also provide an HTML preview of the item (if a preview of the item is available).

• The Storage service deletes archived items. This can be a manual deletion by a user or an automatic deletion when the retention period on an item expires. The archiving task deletes shortcuts.