Procedure 7: Copy or move the Enterprise Vault data files

You now need to restore the backups of the Enterprise Vault data files to their locations on the Enterprise Vault servers.

Depending on the original Enterprise Vault components that existed on the servers you are recovering you will need to restore only the following data files:

The Enterprise Vault data should be restored to the locations where they existed on the original servers. For example, if you are recovering the server running the Indexing service and the indexing data was originally stored in the following location:

C:\Program Files\Enterprise Vault\Indexing

then this indexing data should be restored to the same location on the new server.

To reorganize and move any SQL database devices on the disks, you can perform the procedures as listed in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=181602

This must be correct before you start any of the Enterprise Vault services, otherwise some cleanup operations may occur, resulting in information loss.