Enterprise Vault's Move Archive wizard lets you move content from existing Domino and Exchange mailbox archives, and from Domino and Exchange journal archives, to new archives or existing archives in other vault stores. You can use the wizard to move archives between vault stores in one site, and between two sites. This includes moves between two sites that are controlled by different Enterprise Vault directories.

Move Archive handles each move operation differently, depending on the archiving status of the source archive and the destination archive. Each archive's status can be active or inactive.

Active archives are those that are currently in use by Enterprise Vault as targets for archiving. In the case of mailbox archiving, an active archive is one that is associated with an archiving enabled user, and is the current default archive into which Enterprise Vault archives data. In the case of journal archiving, an active archive is the current default archive for a mailbox journaling task.

Inactive archives are those that are not currently in use by Enterprise Vault as targets for archiving.