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The Storage Service manages the vault stores and archives on the computer where it is running.
The role of the Storage service can be summarized as follows:
The Storage Service accepts items for archiving from the archiving tasks. If possible, it generates a text or HTML version of each item, which the Indexing Service uses to compile indexing data for the item. The Storage Service compresses and stores the items (and the text or HTML versions) in the appropriate archives.
Some file types cannot be converted to text or HTML, for example, GIF and other binary file types. Also, in the default configuration, very large files (larger than 50 MB) are not converted.
Information about each item that is archived is stored in the Vault Store database.
The Storage Service responds to requests from the retrieval tasks to restore items.
The Storage Service monitors open partitions to identify those that have met their partition rollover criteria.
The Storage Service responds to requests to view archived items. It can also provide an HTML preview of the item (if a preview of the item is available).
The Storage Service deletes archived items. This can be a manual deletion by a user or an automatic deletion when the retention period on an item expires. The archiving task deletes shortcuts.
Vault stores have been designed so that they are suitable for being managed by storage management software, such as Veritas NetBackup™. If it is available on the system, the storage management software manages the migration of files to secondary storage devices and retrieves files from secondary storage to the vault store on behalf of the Storage Service. The secondary storage devices are likely to be offline devices, such as optical disks or tapes.