Prerequisites for Enterprise Vault archiving from Domino Journaling databases

Enterprise Vault will archive from any subfolder of the target Domino server's Data directory. Each subfolder, which must already exist, must be an immediate subfolder of the Data directory, and not lower down the folder structure. Otherwise, the Domino Journaling task fails to find any databases to archive.

By default, Enterprise Vault archives from all Domino Journaling databases that are in the subfolder and use the STDMailJournaling template. You can use a registry value to specify other templates to use. See the Setting up Domino Server Archiving manual for instructions.

The normal Enterprise Vault configuration is to retain the original item until the vault store that contains the archived item has been backed up. Enterprise Vault then deletes the original item. The Domino Database Management method must not interfere with this Enterprise Vault process, which means that the Purge and Compact method (specified in the Journaling section of the server configuration document) is unsuitable, because there is the potential to lose items that have, for some reason, not been archived.

Thus, the Domino Journaling database must have its Database Management method set to one of the following in the Journaling section of the server configuration document:

Configure Domino Journaling so that the Journaling database is in a subfolder of the server's Data directory. If Domino Journaling is already configured, you may need to move the Journaling database and update the server configuration document.