Enterprise Vault™ Backing Up Enterprise Vault: Medium Environment
- Backing up Enterprise Vault: Medium environment
- About this document
- About Enterprise Vault backup functionality
- About Enterprise Vault safety copies
- Choosing when to remove Enterprise Vault safety copies
- Checking that the partition has been backed up before Enterprise Vault removes safety copies
- Using the archive attribute to determine whether a partition has been backed up
- Using the trigger file mechanism to determine whether a partition has been backed up
- About Enterprise Vault backup mode
- About Enterprise Vault safety copies
- Backup tools and supporting components
- Medium-sized Enterprise Vault environment
- Enterprise Vault backup schedules
- Component backups
Backing up index volumes
While index locations are in backup mode, Enterprise Vault cannot add new index data to index volumes. However, users can search their archives and retrieve items.
See About Enterprise Vault backup mode.
For daily backups, you can back up only open index volumes. Closed index volumes become permanently read-only when they are closed.
For weekly backups, you should refresh your backup of closed index volumes to ensure that you have a permanent backup of any newly closed index volumes.
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 tab of the 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
- 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 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:
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.