Enterprise Vault™ Backup and Recovery

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Product(s): Enterprise Vault (12.3)
  1. About this guide
    1.  
      About backup and recovery
    2. Where to get more information about Enterprise Vault
      1.  
        Enterprise Vault training modules
  2. Backing up Enterprise Vault
    1.  
      About Enterprise Vault backups
    2.  
      About Enterprise Vault backup mode
    3. Backup of Enterprise Vault data
      1.  
        Enterprise Vault system databases backup
      2.  
        Fingerprint databases backup
      3. Vault store partitions and vault store databases backup
        1.  
          Removal of Enterprise Vault safety copies after backup
      4.  
        Backing up index locations
      5.  
        Backing up the classification policy folder
    4. About backup mode cmdlets
      1.  
        Index location backup mode cmdlet syntax
      2.  
        Vault store backup mode cmdlet syntax
    5.  
      Generating PowerShell backup commands for your environment
    6.  
      Using PowerShell cmdlets in backup scripts
  3. Enterprise Vault recovery procedures
    1.  
      About using EVSVR as part of the recovery procedure
    2. Recovering Enterprise Vault using full system backups
      1.  
        Carrying out an environment recovery procedure
    3. Recovering Enterprise Vault using data-only backups
      1.  
        Recovery procedure 1: Installing software on the servers
      2.  
        Recovery procedure 2: Restoring Enterprise Vault system databases
      3.  
        Recovery procedure 3: Renaming servers
      4.  
        Recovery procedure 4: Copy or move the Enterprise Vault data files
      5.  
        Recovery procedure 5: Clearing the directory database entries
      6.  
        Recovery procedure 6: Recreating services and tasks on the first Directory service computer
      7.  
        Recovery procedure 7: Recreating services and tasks on Enterprise Vault servers
      8.  
        Recovery procedure 8: Checking the Web Access application settings
      9.  
        Recovery procedure 9: Checking registry entries
    4.  
      Recovery of an Enterprise Vault component
    5. Recovery of Enterprise Vault in a VCS cluster
      1.  
        Recovery scenario 1: One of the cluster nodes needs rebuilding
      2.  
        Recovery scenario 2: All the cluster nodes need rebuilding
    6. Recovery of Enterprise Vault in a Windows Server failover cluster
      1.  
        Recovery scenario 1: One of the cluster nodes needs rebuilding
      2.  
        Recovery scenario 2: All the cluster nodes need rebuilding

Backing up index locations

Each Enterprise Vault indexing service can store its indexes in multiple locations, and you must back up all these locations. On each Enterprise Vault server, the index locations are listed on the Index Locations tab of the Enterprise Vault Indexing Service properties page.

The following procedure shows how to find the index locations you need to back up on a server called EVServer.domain1.local.

Note:

To find a complete list of all the index locations to back up, you must complete this procedure on all the Enterprise Vault servers that run an indexing service.

To find a complete list of the index locations you must back up

  1. In the left pane of the administration console, browse to Enterprise Vault Servers > EVServer.domain1.local > Services.
  2. In the right pane, right-click Enterprise Vault Indexing Service and click Properties.
  3. Click the Index Locations tab and note the index locations that you must back up.

Before you back up index locations, you must place them in backup mode.

See About Enterprise Vault backup mode.

Note:

For Enterprise Vault 10.0 and later, you must ensure that all the indexing services in your environment are running before you set backup mode on index locations.

While index locations are in backup mode, users can continue to search their archives. In environments where it is not necessary to maintain this functionality during the backup window, you can stop all the indexing services while you take backups. If you do this, you do not have to set backup mode on index locations.