How to Use the Veritas Alta SaaS Protection Export Utility (for Admins)

Description

Connect the Export Utility

1. Click the ellipse button and select the Stor and location of the data to export.
2. Depending on your specific configuration you may have more than one 'Stor' to select from.

1. Once you've selected your desired export location click 'Ok' to proceed.

Export What

1. All Items - To export all times from the 'Export From' location.
2. Specified Items - To select individual items for restore.
   

1. Items Meeting Metadata Filter
   Click ' Add Filter' and select a Policy Filter type.

1. Select your ' Metadata Field' from the dropdown and ' Add Value' to specify the value according to the field. You can continue to ' Add Filter' to specify additional metadata. Select whether to AND or OR your Filters Allows you to specify the same criteria as MetadataAge as well as:
2. TotalBlobSizeKB - Numeric value in kilobytes.
3. ItemType - Item type can use regex or wildcards. It needs to include the dot before the extension.
   Example: For Example.doc these all are true.
   .doc
   .do *
   regex: ^\..oc$
4. StorageTier - Value identifying the Tier (Hot, Cool, or Archive).
5. RemovedFromSource - Flag identifying where the Connector Service has detected the item has been removed from the original source location.
6. FolderPath - Export items with a specific folder name and/or path. Can use regex or wildcards.
   Example:
   *\Data*

Export To

1. Azure Blob Storage
   Click the ellipsis button and provide the 'Connection String', 'Container Name' and, optionally, 'Root Path' of the Blob Storage location.
2. File Folder
   Click the ellipsis button and provide the 'Destination Path.'
3. Single Mailbox
   Click the ellipsis button and provide the ' Exchange Connection', ' Mailbox SMTP', and ' Mailbox Type'.
   Optionally you can choose a ' Folder Path', ' Suppress Duplicates', ' Only Restore Regular Sent Messages', ' Merge 'Active Mailbox' Folder', and ' Suppress Unsupported Item Classes.'
   For more information see  How to Configure the Exchange Connection for the Export Utility .
4. User Mailboxes
   Click the ellipsis button and select your ' Exchange Connection.'
   Optionally you can choose to ' Suppress Duplicates', ' Only Restore Regular Sent Messages', ' Merge 'Active Mailbox' Folder', and ' Suppress Unsupported Item Classes.'
   Mappings should be automatically created, alternatively: Select ' Add Mapping' or ' Update Mapping' to map locations to mailboxes.
   For more information see  How to Configure the Exchange Connection for the Export Utility.
5. Single PST
   Select a ' Destination Path' and provide a ' PST File Name.'
   Optionally you can choose to ' Suppress Duplicates' in the export.
   Click ' Ok' to save.
   When exporting to a PST, it requires Outlook 64 bit to be installed on the machine running the export. 
6. User PST
   Select a ' Destination Path' for the individual user PST files to be created.
   Optionally you can choose to ' Suppress Duplicates' in the export.
   Mappings should be automatically created, alternatively:
   Select ' Add Mapping' or ' Update Mapping' to map locations to PST files.
7. Single SharePoint Site Collection
   Click the ellipsis button and provide the ' SharePoint Connection' 
   For more information see  How to Configure the SharePoint Connection for the Export Utility.

Restore Type

The options are:

1. Original Item
2. Link-Based Stub
3. Seamless Stub
   Notes for Stub options: 
   1. This only applies to data being restored from a Files Stor. If stubbing is not in use, do not choose either of these options unless directed by Veritas support. 
   2. For more information on stub formats see  Overview of Stubbing Options . If stubbing is not 

Admin Export Mode

Advanced Settings

1. Include Manifests - If enabled, creates an XML manifest file for each file in the directory. This is true even if the file or stub already exists -- if Veritas Alta SaaS Protection has the file in the cloud and a manifest is not present in the directory for the item then one will be created.
2. Restore ACLs - If enabled, restores the security ACLs for any file or stub that is exported/recovered.
3. Force Overwrite - If enabled, instead of a merge, any file already in the directory that also has a file/stub in the export/recovery scope will be replaced. This option can lead to data loss since it will remove content in the destination that may not yet be captured into Veritas Alta SaaS Protection as a new item version.
4. Enhanced Metadata Restore - If enabled, exported last modified dates are accurate to the second. This option is resource-intensive. With this option disabled, exported last modified dates are accurate to the minute.
5. Create Copy - When exporting to a file folder, if the file already exists in the folder, the file will be exported and appear as a copy. e.g. test(1).txt 
6. Metadata Export - Export a file containing metadata of the exported items.
   1. None
   2. HSMetadataXml - Metadata is exported per item. In each directory where items are restored there is an accompanying file named [filename.ext].hsmetadata.xml that contains any additional metadata for that item.
   3. CSV - Metadata is exported per directory. In each directory where items are restored there is an accompanying file named hsmetadata.csv that contains any additional metadata for all restored items.
7. Prune Empty Folders - If enabled, empty folders are not created during the restore.
8. Remove Linked-Based Stubs -This option only applies to files being recovered to a File server. If enabled, any file that is restored and which has a Linked-Based stub file in the directory will have the Linked-Based stub removed when the original file is restored. This setting is only needed when Linked-Based stubs exist.
9. Remove Html Stubs - This option only applies to files being recovered to a File server.. If enabled, any file that is restored and which has an HTML stub file in the directory will have the HTML stub removed when the original file is restored. This setting is only needed when HTML stubs exist.
10. Suppress 'Removed From Source' Content - This is recommended so that it does not restore data that has been deleted from the source as it may cause confusion for the user base.  (NOTE: Option is enabled by default starting in version 2.11.8 and on)
11. Remove Offline Attribute from Non-Stubs - This will find any files that are offline but not reparse points and remove the offline attribute. This is useful when certain applications trigger a restore but the offline attribute is not removed.
12. Restore Stubs Only - Only restores SharePoint files that are stubbed. This will essentially unstub everything that is stubbed in a given location. 
13. Include All Blob (for multi-blob Stors) -  Exports all of the blobs associated with a file.  Some types of data have multiple blobs per item version, and if all these versions are uploaded to ASP it will contains multiple blobs.  This option will export all of these versions.

Run the Export

Access the Export