We are currently running EV FSA 9.03. When it was installed and configured by a contractor rather than archiving with Placeholder shortcuts he archived the shares with Internet Explorer shortcuts. We have since changed the way ot works to now run placeholders but we are left with about 20-30 gb of data that has IE shortcuts. Is there a way of bringing these back then running the archive again without manually opening them all and saving? It wouldn't matter but we have some users who want to use a FileBrowser app on Ipad and they can't open these IE shortcuts. THanks in advance

have you had a look at FSAUtility.exe? page 143 of Utilities.pdf which comes with the EV documentation. it should have everything you need to do what you're asking.

Hi there, Had a look. The -t command looks to be the parameter I am after. I'm assuming this will work on both Internet shortcut archived files and placeholders too?

Hi, As I understand, you already have IE shortcuts to files - which you want to replace with regular placeholders itself. So you have two choices: a) Restore archived files (using FSAUtility.exe -t option) and re-archive them. The re-archive operation will convert these files to regular placeholders. b) You can also consider using "Recreating placeholders" option of FSAUtility.exe. This option is called -c option. Use it along with -f. Read Utilities.pdf for more information. Try to run this on one of the subfolder first (as trial). If it works well, and solves your problem - then consider using this on the full target. (This one will be more effiecient as unlike option a, it will not recall all archived content, copy them on local disk, and then re-acrhive) (I will anyway try this out in my lab and confirm you if option b works well to replce IE shortcuts with file placeholders or not.)

Thanks very much for your response. Once you confirm if it works in the lab I will try it out.

I have just tried this in my lab. And I would like to confirm that "FSAUtility.exe -c" will solve your problem. No need to use -f. It will create file placholder for your archived files. When you use these placholders, they work all fine (retervie the archived item). In my testing in lab, I have tried this with NTFS share. While this approach will create placeholders for your archived items, it will not delete your existing internet link's based shortcuts. You will need to remove them manually. (To get the list of such shortcuts, you can run "dir *.url /s" on your folder target. And to remove them, you can use "del *.url /s" on folder target). Hope this info helps.

Enterprise Vault FSA 9.03 Internet Explorer Shortcuts Question

barrymcnally
Level 3
13 years ago
Hi sorry for taking so long to get back to you. Been caught up on other projects and only now getting to look at this.

Your instructions above look good my only concern is that the assumption that the old server is listed in the VAC target is not true, it was deleted after the file server was deleted. What I have done is created the fileserver with the old FQDN and the volume that both match the way it was. I then intend to add the server details into the VAC. Will this work ? Or will it create another archive point.

Also one thing to note when the archive point was created it was against the volume and not set to autocreate archive points for subfolders so I think that means I can't test against a subfolder as there is no archive point for it and will need to bring the whole volume back.

Incidentally is there a command that lets me see how much data I have archived to the vault ( not just this one volume but anything I have archived)

thanks again

p.s an update. I created the volume again through the VAC when I try and restore the placeholders using -c option i get following.

SA Utility Report
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FSARestore running in report mode...

Recreating placeholders for \\wdcfs1.west-dunbarton.gov.uk\Information Services

\\wdcfs1.west-dunbarton.gov.uk\Information Services not found.
Completed processing.

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