About Vault Cache

Vault Cache provides a local cache of archived items. Vault Cache performs the following functions:

Additionally, Vault Cache may be useful in normal offices if you need to conserve bandwidth or improve performance. The improvement is because archived items are retrieved on the local computer.

When the Vault Cache is enabled for an archive, Enterprise Vault downloads copies of items to the Vault Cache database on the user's computer.

Enterprise Vault automatically synchronizes Vault Cache with the archive once a day. If new items have been added to the archive, copies of these are then downloaded to Vault Cache. If the there is no connection to the archive, the synchronization happens automatically the next time a connection is detected.

To minimize the number of items that need to be downloaded to the Vault Cache, items that are due to be archived soon, are automatically added the Vault Cache. This feature is called preemptive copying.

When a user who is working offline opens a shortcut in Notes, the local copy in the Vault Cache database is opened.

When new items need to be downloaded to a Vault Cache database, copies of the items are gathered together and held temporarily in the Vault Cache before being downloaded to the user's Vault Cache.