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Veritas Enterprise Vault™ Setting up File System Archiving (FSA)

Last Published: 2017-07-28

Product(s): Enterprise Vault (12.1)

About this guide
1. Introducing this guide
2. Where to get more information about Enterprise Vault
  1. Enterprise Vault training modules
About File System Archiving
1. About File System Archiving
2. About using FSA with clustered file servers
3. About setting up File System Archiving
4. About FSA policies
5. About target volumes, folders, and archive points
6. About client access to FSA-archived items
7. About archived file permissions
8. About FSA shortcut files
9. About the FSA Agent
10. About retention folders
11. About File Blocking
12. About FSA Reporting
13. About FSAUtility
Steps to configure File System Archiving
1. Steps to configure File System Archiving
Adding a Windows file server to File System Archiving
1. Adding a Windows file server to File System Archiving
2. Using FSA with the Windows Encrypting File System (EFS)
3. About archiving from Windows Server 2012 file servers
4. Account requirements for managing FSA with Windows file servers
5. Permissions and privileges required by the Vault Service account on Windows file servers
  1. Granting permissions to the Vault Service account if you do not install the FSA Agent
6. Configuring a file server's firewall for FSA
7. Adding a Windows file server as an archiving target
Adding a NetApp filer to File System Archiving
1. Adding a NetApp filer to File System Archiving
2. Setting the permissions for FSA on a NetApp filer
3. Adding a NetApp filer as an archiving target
Adding a NetApp C-Mode Vserver to File System Archiving
1. Adding a NetApp C-Mode Vserver to File System Archiving
2. Permissions and privileges required by the Vault Service account on NetApp C-mode Vservers
3. Granting the required permission on each Vserver
4. Configuring the FPolicy server details
5. Adding a NetApp C-Mode Vserver as an archiving target
6. Points to note about File System Archiving on NetApp C-Mode file servers
Adding an EMC Celerra/VNX device to File System Archiving
1. Adding a Celerra/VNX device to File System Archiving
2. Preparing a Celerra/VNX device for FSA
3. Adding a Celerra/VNX device as an archiving target
4. Specifying a cache location for retrieved Celerra/VNX files
Configuring FSA with clustered file servers
1. About configuring FSA with clustered file servers
2. Steps to configure FSA with clustered file servers
3. Preparing to set up FSA services in a cluster
4. Adding the Vault Service account to the non-secure VCS cluster for FSA high availability
5. Adding the virtual file server as an FSA target
6. Configuring or reconfiguring the FSA resource
7. Removing the FSA resource from all cluster groups
8. Troubleshooting the configuration of FSA with clustered file servers
  1. 'Failed to collect clustering data' error on starting FSA Cluster Configuration wizard
Installing the FSA Agent
1. About installing the FSA Agent on a Windows file server
  1. Installing the FSA Agent using the Install FSA Agent wizard
  2. Installing the FSA Agent manually
2. About FSA Agent uninstallation
3. Updating the logon credentials of the FSA Agent services
Defining volume and folder policies
1. About defining FSA volume and folder policies
2. Creating FSA volume policies and folder policies
3. About FSA volume policy and folder policy properties
4. About selecting the shortcut type for an FSA policy
  1. About choosing not to display the file size in NetApp placeholder shortcuts
5. About FSA policy archiving rules
6. About options for archiving files that have explicit permissions, and files under DAC
Configuring the deletion of archived files on placeholder deletion
1. About configuring the deletion of archived files on placeholder deletion
2. Configuring the deletion of archived files on placeholder deletion for Windows file servers and NetApp filers
3. Configuring the deletion of files on placeholder deletion for EMC Celerra/VNX devices
Configuring target volumes, target folders, and archive points
1. About adding target volumes, target folders, and archive points for FSA
  1. About the checks for existing archives for an FSA folder path
2. Adding a target volume for FSA
3. Adding a target folder and archive points for FSA
4. About managing archive points
  1. Viewing, editing, or deleting archive points in the Administration Console
5. Archive point properties
  1. Archive point properties: General tab
  2. Archive point properties: Indexing tab
6. Effects of modifying, moving, or deleting folders
  1. Effects of modifying folders with folder policies
  2. Effects of modifying folders with archive points
7. About deleting target folders, volumes, and file servers
Configuring pass-through recall for placeholder shortcuts
1. About configuring pass-through recall for placeholder shortcuts
2. Configuring pass-through recall for a Windows file server
  1. About configuring pass-through recall for a file server cluster
  2. Registry values for pass-through recall on Windows file servers
3. Configuring pass-through recall for a NetApp filer
Configuring and managing retention folders
1. Configuring retention folders
2. About assigning a retention folder policy using the Command Line Interface (CLI)
  1. The format of the RtnFolder.exe settings file
  2. Example RtnFolder.exe commands
3. Managing retention folders
  1. Disabling the archiving of retention folders for an FSA target
  2. Assigning a different retention folder policy to a target folder
Configuring File Blocking
1. About configuring File Blocking
2. Steps to configure File Blocking
3. Defining a local quarantine location for File Blocking
4. Defining a central quarantine location for File Blocking
5. Specifying the mail notification delivery mechanism for File Blocking
6. Including File Blocking rules in a policy
7. About File Blocking rules
8. Exempting File Blocking for specific users
9. Troubleshooting File Blocking in a clustered environment
Configuring and running FSA tasks
1. About configuring and running FSA tasks
2. Adding a File System Archiving task
3. Scheduling a File System Archiving task
4. Setting the FSA folder permissions synchronization schedule
5. Scheduling the deletion of archived files on placeholder deletion for EMC Celerra/VNX
6. Configuring FSA version pruning
7. Using Run Now to process FSA targets manually
  1. Processing an FSA target volume manually
  2. Running a File System Archiving task manually
8. About File System Archiving task reports
9. About scheduling storage expiry for FSA
Configuring file system filtering
1. About custom filters for File System Archiving
2. Configuring file system filters
3. About file system filter reports
Managing the file servers
1. About managing the target file servers
2. About backing up the target file servers
3. About virus-checking the target file servers
4. About changing the placeholder recall rate settings
  1. Changing the placeholder recall rate settings for a Windows file server
  2. Changing the placeholder recall rate settings for a NetApp file server
5. About preventing unwanted file recalls from placeholder shortcuts
PowerShell cmdlets for File System Archiving
1. About the PowerShell cmdlets for File System Archiving
2. Running the File System Archiving cmdlets
3. Creating PowerShell scripts using File System Archiving cmdlets
4. File System Archiving cmdlets error handling
Appendix A. Permissions and privileges required for the Vault Service account on Windows file servers
1. About the permissions and privileges required for the Vault Service account on Windows file servers
2. Group membership requirements for the Vault Service account
3. DCOM permissions required by the Vault Service account
4. WMI control permissions required by the Vault Service account
5. Local security user rights required by the Vault Service account
6. Permissions required by the Vault Service account for the FSA Agent
7. Permissions required by the Vault Service account to support the FSA resource on clustered file servers
8. FSA target share and folder permissions required by the Vault Service account

Where to get more information about Enterprise Vault

Table: Enterprise Vault documentation set lists the documentation that accompanies Enterprise Vault.

Table: Enterprise Vault documentation set

Document	Comments
Veritas Enterprise Vault Documentation Library	Includes all the following documents in Windows Help (`.chm`) format so that you can search across them all. It also includes links to the guides in Acrobat (`.pdf`) format. You can access the library in several ways, including the following: In Windows Explorer, browse to the `Documentation\language` subfolder of the Enterprise Vault installation folder, and then open the `EV_Help.chm` file. On the Help menu in the Administration Console, click Help on Enterprise Vault.
Introduction and Planning	Provides an overview of Enterprise Vault functionality.
Deployment Scanner	Describes how to check the required software and settings before you install Enterprise Vault.
Installing and Configuring	Provides detailed information on setting up Enterprise Vault.
Upgrade Instructions	Describes how to upgrade an existing Enterprise Vault installation to the latest version.
Setting up Domino Server Archiving	Describes how to archive items from Domino mail files and journal databases.
Setting up Exchange Server Archiving	Describes how to archive items from Microsoft Exchange user mailboxes, journal mailboxes, and public folders.
Setting up File System Archiving	Describes how to archive the files that are held on network file servers.
Setting up IMAP	Describes how to configure IMAP client access to Exchange archives and Internet mail archives.
Setting up SMTP Archiving	Describes how to archive SMTP messages from other messaging servers.
Setting up SharePoint Server Archiving	Describes how to archive content from Microsoft SharePoint servers.
Administrator's Guide	Describes how to perform day-to-day administration procedures.
Backup and Recovery	Describes how to implement an effective backup strategy to prevent data loss, and how to provide a means for recovery in the event of a system failure.
Classification	Describes how to assign classification values to the metadata properties of all new and existing archived items. Users of applications such as Enterprise Vault Search and Compliance Accelerator can then use the classification values to filter the items when they conduct searches or reviews.
NSF Migration	Describes how to migrate content from Domino and Notes NSF files into Enterprise Vault archives.
PST Migration	Describes how to migrate content from Outlook PST files into Enterprise Vault archives.
Reporting	Describes how to implement Enterprise Vault Reporting, which provides reports on the status of Enterprise Vault servers, archives, and archived items. If you configure FSA Reporting, additional reports are available for file servers and their volumes.
Utilities	Describes the Enterprise Vault tools and utilities.
PowerShell Cmdlets	Describes how to perform various administrative tasks by running the Enterprise Vault PowerShell cmdlets.
Registry Values	A reference document that lists the registry values with which you can modify many aspects of Enterprise Vault behavior.
Help for Administration Console	The online Help for the Enterprise Vault Administration Console.
Help for Enterprise Vault Operations Manager	The online Help for Enterprise Vault Operations Manager.

For the latest information on supported devices and versions of software, see the Enterprise Vault Compatibility Charts book, which is available from this address:

http://www.veritas.com/docs/000097605