Enterprise Vault will archive from any subfolder of the target Domino server's Data directory. Each subfolder, which must already exist, must be an immediate subfolder of the Data directory, and not lower down the folder structure. Otherwise, the Domino Journaling task fails to find any databases to archive.
By default, Enterprise Vault archives from all Domino Journaling databases that are in the subfolder and use the STDMailJournaling template. You can use a registry value to specify other templates to use. See the Setting up Domino Server Archiving manual for instructions.
The normal Enterprise Vault configuration is to retain the original item until the vault store that contains the archived item has been backed up. Enterprise Vault then deletes the original item. The Domino Database Management method must not interfere with this Enterprise Vault process, which means that the Purge and Compact method (specified in the Journaling section of the server configuration document) is unsuitable, because there is the potential to lose items that have, for some reason, not been archived.
Thus, the Domino Journaling database must have its Database Management method set to one of the following in the Journaling section of the server configuration document:
Periodic Rollover or Size Rollover. If you choose either of these options in Domino 6.5.n, Domino does not create the rollover databases in the same directory as the initial database. This means that you must manually move rollover databases into the Domino journal directory in order for them to be archived.
None. If you select this method the database will continue to grow, so we recommend that you compact the journal directory each night.
Configure Domino Journaling so that the Journaling database is in a subfolder of the server's Data directory. If Domino Journaling is already configured, you may need to move the Journaling database and update the server configuration document.