Enterprise Vault™ Introduction and Planning
- About this guide
- Introduction
- Overview of Enterprise Vault
- How Enterprise Vault works
- About single instance storage
- About Enterprise Vault indexing
- About Index Server groups
- About Enterprise Vault Administration Console
- About Enterprise Vault sites, Directory, and Directory database
- About Enterprise Vault tasks
- About Enterprise Vault services
- About the Enterprise Vault Outlook Add-In
- About IMAP access to Enterprise Vault archives
- About the Enterprise Vault Client for Mac OS X
- About Microsoft Exchange forms
- About the Office Mail App for OWA 2013 and later and Outlook 2013 and later
- About Enterprise Vault extensions for Notes
- About Enterprise Vault Search
- About Enterprise Vault monitoring and reporting
- FIPS 140-2 compliance
- Enterprise Vault administration
- About Enterprise Vault administration
- Administration Console configuration of archiving
- Administration accounts and roles
- How to archive PST file contents
- How to archive NSF file contents
- How to export archived items
- Welcome message and other notifications
- About reporting and monitoring in Enterprise Vault
- How to script management tasks
- Checklist of day-to-day management tasks
- Single Sign-On for Enterprise Vault Search
- Exchange Server archiving
- Exchange Public Folder archiving
- File System Archiving
- About File System Archiving
- About File archiving policies
- About shortcut files with File System Archiving
- About setting up File System Archiving
- File System Archiving in a clustered environment
- The process of File System Archiving
- How File System Archiving handles older versions of archived files
- How File System Archiving synchronizes permissions
- File System Archiving reports
- How to restore files with File System Archiving
- About FSAUtility
- How to back up and scan shortcut files with File System Archiving
- Pass-through recall for placeholder shortcuts with File System Archiving
- Retention Folders and File System Archiving
- FSA Reporting
- Archiving Microsoft SharePoint servers
- Domino mailbox archiving
- Domino Journal archiving
- SMTP Archiving
- Microsoft Teams Archiving
- Skype for Business Archiving
- Enterprise Vault Accelerators
- About the Enterprise Vault Accelerators
- Differences between the Enterprise Vault Accelerators
- About Compliance Accelerator
- About Discovery Accelerator
- Building in resilience
- Planning component installation
- About planning component installation
- About valid computer names for Enterprise Vault servers
- Prerequisites for Enterprise Vault components when planning installation
- Factors to consider when planning deployment of Enterprise Vault components
- Enterprise Vault Directory Service installation planning
- Where to set up the Enterprise Vault Services and Tasks
- How to plan installing Exchange Mailbox Archiving Tasks
- How to plan installing Exchange Journaling Tasks
- How to plan installing Exchange Public Folder Tasks
- How to plan installing Domino Journaling and Mailbox Archiving Tasks
- How to plan installing the Move Archive task
- How to plan installing the Storage Service
- How to plan installing the Indexing Service
- How to plan installing the Shopping Service
- How to plan installing File System Archiving
- How to plan installing SharePoint Archiving
- How to plan installing SMTP Archiving
- How to plan installing Accelerator Services
- Enterprise Vault databases and planning their installation
- Vault store groups and vault stores installation planning
- Administration Console installation
- Installation planning for client components
- Planning your archiving strategy
- About archiving strategies
- Where to define default settings for the Enterprise Vault Site
- How to allow users flexibility
- How to plan the types of items to archive
- How to define your archiving policy for user mailboxes
- How to plan the archiving policy for journal mailboxes
- How to plan the archiving strategy for Exchange public folders
- How to plan an archiving strategy for FSA
- How to plan a strategy for SharePoint archiving
- How to plan settings for retention categories
- How to plan the automatic deletion of archived items
- How to plan PST migration
- How to plan NSF migration
- How to plan shared archives
- How to plan vault stores and partitions
- How to plan single instance storage
- About Enterprise Vault reports
How to choose a location for safety copies
By default Enterprise Vault retains safety copies of items that have been archived. Enterprise Vault keeps the safety copies until the vault store partition in which they are archived has been backed up or replicated.
The default is for Enterprise Vault to use the original items as safety copies. This default means that Enterprise Vault must wait until the vault store partition has been backed up or replicated before it can delete the original items. The original items must stay in the original locations until the backup or replication is complete.
You do not need safety copies if all changes on the device that hosts the vault store partition are immediately replicated to a duplicate device.
There is an alternative location for safety copies: you can configure vault stores so that Enterprise Vault keeps the safety copies on the storage queue. This mechanism means that Enterprise Vault can remove the original items as soon as they have been archived. The storage space in the original location is recovered quickly.
When an item is archived using IMAP access Enterprise Vault always keeps the safety copy on the storage queue, regardless of whether you choose to keep safety copies in the original location or on the storage queue.
The storage queue location should be on a fault-tolerant device (RAID 1 or higher). The device must have sufficient space for all items on the queue. If you intend to use the storage queue for safety copies then there must be enough space to keep them until after the next backup.
You can change the storage queue location on the Storage Queue tab of the Storage service properties.
In the properties of each vault store you can configure specific safety copy options for mail journal items. For example, you could choose to delete journal items as soon as they have been archived but to retain safety copies of items that are archived from other sources.
Enterprise Vault checks for safety copies to remove when the Storage service is started and also when backup mode is cleared from the vault store.