Enterprise Vault™ Backup and Recovery
- About this guide
- Backing up Enterprise Vault
- Enterprise Vault recovery procedures
- About using EVSVR as part of the recovery procedure
- Recovering Enterprise Vault using full system backups
- Recovering Enterprise Vault using data-only backups
- Recovery procedure 1: Installing software on the servers
- Recovery procedure 2: Restoring Enterprise Vault system databases
- Recovery procedure 3: Renaming servers
- Recovery procedure 4: Copy or move the Enterprise Vault data files
- Recovery procedure 5: Clearing the directory database entries
- Recovery procedure 6: Recreating services and tasks on the first Directory service computer
- Recovery procedure 7: Recreating services and tasks on Enterprise Vault servers
- Recovery procedure 8: Checking the Web Access application settings
- Recovery procedure 9: Checking registry entries
- Recovery of an Enterprise Vault component
- Recovery of Enterprise Vault in a VCS cluster
- Recovery of Enterprise Vault in a Windows Server failover cluster
About Enterprise Vault backup mode
Enterprise Vault lets you place vault stores, index locations, and index snapshot locations in backup mode for the duration of a data backup. Enterprise Vault does not write any data into vault store partitions or index locations or index snapshot locations while they are in backup mode. However, services to users are maintained while vault stores and index locations are in backup mode. For example, users can continue to search their archives and restore items from them.
You can set backup mode on vault stores and index locations in the Enterprise Vault administration console. When your backup is complete, you can use the administration console to clear backup mode.
You can also use PowerShell cmdlets in the Enterprise Vault Management Shell to set, clear, and report on vault store, index location, and index snapshot location backup mode. When you use the PowerShell cmdlets to set and clear backup mode, Enterprise Vault maintains a count of the number of requests for each vault store, index location, and index snapshot location to support the use of concurrent backup scripts.
For more information, see How to Check, Set or Clear backup mode on Enterprise Vault Stores, Indexes and Index Snapshot Locations in version 14.2 and later
See About backup mode cmdlets.
To manage backup mode on vault stores, your user account must be assigned the storage administrator role. To manage backup mode on index locations, your user account must be assigned the power administrator role.
See "Roles-based administration" in the Administrator's Guide.
In the administration console, you can set and clear vault store backup mode in the following places:
The context menu on the Enterprise Vault site
The context menu on any vault store group
The context menu on any vault store
You can set and clear index location backup mode in the following places:
The context menu on the Enterprise Vault site
The context menu on any Enterprise Vault server
The index service properties page
When you set and clear backup mode on index locations and vault stores, events are written to the Enterprise Vault event log. The indexing service also writes an event when it starts, if any index locations are in backup mode. This event lists all the index locations that are in backup mode.
The following examples show how to use backup mode in the administration console. The first example is a procedure to set backup mode on all the vault stores in a vault store group. The second example is a procedure to find the current backup mode settings for index locations on a server called EVServer.domain1.local.
To set backup mode on all the vault stores in a vault store group
- In the left pane of the administration console, expand the Vault Store Group container.
- Right-click the vault store group whose vault stores you want to place in backup mode, and click Set State > Set Backup Mode on all Vault Stores.
The column in the right pane now shows that backup mode is set on all the vault stores in the vault store group.
To see the current backup mode settings for index locations, and to change these settings
- In the left pane of the administration console, browse to Enterprise Vault Servers > EVServer.domain1.local > Services.
- In the right pane, right-click Enterprise Vault Indexing Service and click Properties.
- Click the Index Locations tab.
- The Backup Mode column shows the current backup mode settings for all the index locations on the server. You can change the setting for any of these locations.