Processing a volume immediately

Normally, File System Archiving processes each volume as part of a scheduled run. Sometimes, though, you may want to process a particular volume outside this schedule. On such occasions, you can use "Run Now" to process the volume immediately. "Run Now" is often useful when you are piloting or demonstrating Enterprise Vault.

Note the following:

To process a volume immediately

  1. In the Administration Console, expand the Enterprise Vault site until the Targets container is visible.

  2. Expand the Targets container.

  3. Expand the File Servers container.

  4. Expand the target file server whose volume you want to process.

  5. Right-click the volume that you want to process and then, on the shortcut menu, click Run Now.

  6. In the Run Now dialog box, select the options to specify how you want the task to run:

    • In normal mode: The volume is processed normally; the files that match the archiving criteria are archived.

    • In report mode: Nothing is archived, but Enterprise Vault generates a report that shows you what would be archived if you processed the volume in normal mode.

    The File System Archiving task creates the reports in the Reports\FSA subfolder of the Enterprise Vault installation folder, typically C:\Program Files\Enterprise Vault. Within Reports\FSA there is a subfolder for the task, with further subfolders to indicate the mode in which the task was run.

    See File System Archiving task reports.

    The fields within the file are tab-separated, so the contents can easily be read into a spreadsheet program for analysis.

  7. Run the task for the creation of shortcuts only: Select this option to restrict the task so that it does not archive, but does create shortcuts. The task creates shortcuts according to the shortcut creation settings in the policy archiving rules. When you select this option the task does not perform archiving. You can choose In report mode to generate a report of shortcuts that would be created if the task ran in normal mode.

  8. Click OK.