Maintaining the fingerprint databases

Each vault store group has a fingerprint database. One possible exception is the Default Upgrade Group, which Enterprise Vault creates if you upgrade to Enterprise Vault 8.0. The Default Upgrade Group does not have a fingerprint database until you configure sharing for it.

The total initial disk space requirement is 244 MB.

The fingerprint database holds information about each Enterprise Vault single instance storage part (SIS part) that is stored in the group's vault stores. In addition to the primary filegroup, a fingerprint database has 32 non-primary filegroups, which hold the information about the SIS parts.

If you share items using Enterprise Vault single instance storage, Enterprise Vault generates a large amount of SIS part data. The non-primary filegroups may therefore grow very rapidly in size. To ensure acceptable archiving and retrieval performance, you must locate the non-primary filegroups appropriately for the amount of sharing in the vault store group. You can configure the filegroup locations when you create the vault store group, or when you configure sharing for the Default Upgrade Group.

See "Creating vault store groups" and "Configuring sharing for a vault store group" in Installing and Configuring.

To add or change the filegroup locations after the fingerprint database is configured is a SQL Server administration task. See your Microsoft SQL Server documentation for details.

The initial size of the fingerprint database is as follows:

Primary filegroup

132 MB

Non-primary filegroups

32 MB (1 MB for each of the 32 non-primary filegroups)

Transaction log

80 MB

Total

244 MB

The fingerprint database components are named as follows:

Database name

EVVSGvaultstoregroup_n_m

Data device name

EVVSGvaultstoregroup_n_m

Log device name

EVVSGvaultstoregroup_n_mLOG

The variables in the names are as follows: