About archive points

To archive files from a target volume, you must add archive points to control which folders can be archived. An archive point marks the top of a folder structure that Enterprise Vault archives within a single archive.

Enterprise Vault creates an archive for each archive point that it finds. By default the Enterprise Vault File System Archiving task creates an archive with the same name as the folder to which the archive point applies. The site defaults are used to supply the other attributes of the archive, but you can override these defaults.

To ensure that an archive does not fill up too quickly you need to consider the size of the folder structure below each archive point.

The easiest way to manage archive points is to use the Administration Console. Additionally, there is a command-line tool, ArchivePoints. For information on how to use ArchivePoints to create, delete, list, show contents, and update archive points, see ArchivePoints in the Utilities manual.

Note:

You cannot use the Administration Console to create an archive point at the root of a target volume. If you want to create an archive point at the volume root you must use the ArchivePoints command-line tool.

Where possible, Enterprise Vault uses Alternate Data Streams (ADS) to indicate archive points. These stream archive points are used on NTFS volumes, on NetApp devices, and on EMC Celerra devices. If the file system does not support ADS, Enterprise Vault uses hidden XML files to mark archive points.

Note:

if you delete a volume from a target file server in the Administration Console, Enterprise Vault does not delete any associated archive points automatically.

See Deleting a volume.