Enterprise Vault™ Introduction and Planning
- About this guide
- Introduction
- Overview of Enterprise Vault
- How Enterprise Vault works
- About Enterprise Vault indexing
- About Enterprise Vault tasks
- About Enterprise Vault services
- About the Enterprise Vault Outlook Add-In
- About Enterprise Vault Search
- Enterprise Vault administration
- About reporting and monitoring in Enterprise Vault
- Exchange Server archiving
- Exchange Public Folder archiving
- File System Archiving
- Archiving Microsoft SharePoint servers
- Domino mailbox archiving
- Domino Journal archiving
- SMTP Archiving
- Skype for Business Archiving
- Enterprise Vault Accelerators
- About Compliance Accelerator
- About Discovery Accelerator
- Building in resilience
- Planning component installation
- Where to set up the Enterprise Vault Services and Tasks
- Installation planning for client components
- Planning your archiving strategy
- How to define your archiving policy for user mailboxes
- How to plan the archiving strategy for Exchange public folders
- How to plan settings for retention categories
- How to plan vault stores and partitions
- About Enterprise Vault reports
Pass-through recall for placeholder shortcuts with File System Archiving
For Windows and NetApp file servers, you can configure Enterprise Vault to perform pass-through recall for placeholder shortcuts. Enterprise Vault then passes the data directly through to the calling application on receipt of a read request for a placeholder. Enterprise Vault recalls the file to the file server, subject to permissions, only if the calling application makes a write request. For example, this is the case if the application requires a writeable file, or the user attempts to save changes to a file.
Pass-through recall can be useful in the following circumstances:
With placeholders on read-only file systems, such as snapshots. A normal placeholder recall to a read-only file system fails because Enterprise Vault cannot write the recalled file to the file system.
With Windows file servers where there is limited space on the file server, or when users have strict quotas for space usage. Recalled files normally occupy space on the target file system, and therefore count towards a user's space quota. For Windows file servers, you can enable or disable pass-through recall for each file server volume.
Pass-through recall uses a disk cache to reduce recall times for large files. For Windows file servers, the disk cache is located on the file server. For NetApp file servers, the disk cache is located on the Enterprise Vault server.
Note the following:
Some applications such as Excel always recall to disk even when pass-through recall is enabled.
For Dell EMC Celerra/VNX file servers, Enterprise Vault supports the Celerra/VNX pass-through facility.
For NetApp file servers, the pass-through recall feature works only with read-only file systems. Pass-through recall is ignored for read-write file systems.
There is a setting "Delete archived file when placeholder is deleted" on the Shortcuts tab of volume policy properties and folder policy properties. That setting is ignored on Windows file server volumes if pass-through recall is enabled on the volume.