About Enterprise Vault quiescence before a backup

To back up an Open partition or Index location, Enterprise Vault needs to be quiesced before the backup job starts. The way quiescence is achieved in Enterprise Vault 7.5 is different from how it is achieved in Enterprise Vault 8.0.

Note:

Enterprise Vault uses three terms to define quiescence. Those three terms are read-only mode, backup mode, and quiescence. These terms are used interchangeably in reference to Enterprise Vault.

For Enterprise Vault 7.5, the following applies when NetBackup quiesces Enterprise Vault:

See About how to quiesce and unquiesce Enterprise Vault services.

In Enterprise Vault 8.0 a more granular method to quiesce Enterprise Vault components is used.

See About granular quiescence.