About upgrading the FSA metadata

If you use File System Archiving then after you have upgraded the Enterprise Vault servers you must upgrade the FSA metadata in the vault store databases to the new summarized format. The summarized metadata enables Enterprise Vault Reporting to generate some of its reports more efficiently. Enterprise Vault Reporting cannot report on the FSA items that were archived with previous versions of Enterprise Vault until you upgrade the existing FSA metadata.

You can use the FSA upgrade utility command-line tool to upgrade the FSA metadata.

Note:

You must upgrade the FSA metadata whether or not you use Enterprise Vault Reporting.

You cannot upgrade to the next major release of Enterprise Vault until you have upgraded every vault store that contains FSA data.

On upgrade to Enterprise Vault 9.0, Enterprise Vault generates the following warning messages if you need to use the FSA upgrade utility:

For information about how to use the FSA upgrade utility, see the "FSA upgrade utility" section of the Utilities guide.