About Enterprise Vault backups

Enterprise Vault requires an effective backup strategy to prevent data loss, and to provide a means for recovery in the event of a system failure. When you plan this strategy, remember that Enterprise Vault components can be distributed across multiple systems. The resources on which Enterprise Vault depends may be remote from Enterprise Vault services and tasks.

This chapter describes:

Enterprise Vault's backup mode which lets you place vault stores and index locations in backup mode while you take backups.
The databases you must back up.
The data locations and index locations you must back up.
The use of Enterprise Vault's backup mode PowerShell cmdlets in your backup scripts.

If your Enterprise Vault system is in a clustered environment, refer to the following document on the Symantec support web site:

http://entsupport.symantec.com/docs/285839

The document provides supplementary information on performing backups of Enterprise Vault systems that are clustered using VCS or Microsoft server clusters.