Veritas Enterprise Vault™ Backup and Recovery

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Product(s): Enterprise Vault (12.1)
  1. About this guide
    1. Where to get more information about Enterprise Vault
      1.  
        Enterprise Vault training modules
  2. Introduction to Enterprise Vault backup and recovery
    1.  
      About backup and recovery
  3. 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
    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
  4. 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

Recovery procedure 4: Copy or move the Enterprise Vault data files

You now need to restore the backups of the Enterprise Vault data files to their locations on the Enterprise Vault servers.

Depending on the original Enterprise Vault components that existed on the servers you are recovering you must restore only the following data files:

  • If you are restoring a server that used to run a Storage service, or a server that is configured in a cluster, you need to restore onto this server the saveset files for any vault stores managed by the original Storage service.

  • If you are restoring a server that used to run an Indexing service, or a server that is configured in a cluster, you need to restore onto this server the indexing data files managed by the original Indexing service.

  • If you are restoring a server that used to run a Shopping service, or a server that is configured in a cluster, you need to restore onto this server the shopping files managed by the original Shopping service.

The Enterprise Vault data should be restored to the locations where they existed on the original servers. For example, if you are recovering the server running the Indexing service and the indexing data was originally stored in the following location:

I:\Indexing

then this indexing data should be restored to the same location on the new server.

To reorganize and move any SQL database devices on the disks, you can perform the procedures as listed in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=181602

This must be correct before you start any of the Enterprise Vault services, otherwise some cleanup operations may occur, resulting in information loss.