EV_INDEX_LOCATION and EV_OPEN_PARTITIONS

Symantec recommends that you use these directives more frequently that the other directives. In fact, you should schedule these directives to run daily backups. These directives take the backup to a more granular level to protect Enterprise Vault. These directives should be the most preferred backup selections when you want to protect large deployments of Enterprise Vault.

EV_CLOSED_PARTITIONS

Closed partitions can be backed up by a policy that uses the EV_SITE or EV_SERVER directives. However, if these policies are not scheduled, then you can use the EV_CLOSED_PARTITIONS directive in a policy to back up the closed partitions. Closed partitions do not typically change often, so you can schedule a backup with this directive to occur less frequently.

EV_VAULT_STORE_DB and EV_VAULT_STORE_DB=

The EV_OPEN_PARTITIONS directive implicitly backs up the Vault Store database so you would not need to back up the vault store separately. However, if Enterprise Vault collection is enabled, then you should plan to use these directives to back up the vault store database regularly. If collection is not enabled, then you can plan to use these directives before you do any maintenance on the SQL server that hosts these databases. In addition, you should also plan to back up the directory (EV_DIR_DB) and monitoring (EV_MONITORING_DB) databases in the maintenance case.

EV_VAULT_STORE and EV_VAULT_STORE=

Using this directive means data that is not modified regularly is backed up more frequently than it needs to be. Symantec recommends that you use these directives when you want to repair a particular Vault Store or multiple Vault Stores.

EV_SERVER

Using this directive means data that is not modified regularly is backed up more frequently than it needs to be. Symantec recommends that you use this directive for planned maintenance on an Enterprise Vault server.

EV_SITE

Using this directive means data that is not modified regularly is backed up more frequently than it needs to be. Symantec recommends that you use this directive only for small Enterprise Vault setups and if the backup window and media usage is acceptable.