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Nate_D1
Level 6
12 years ago

Migrating placeholders with FSA Utility

Hi All,   I am looking for information about migrating placeholders with FSA Utility. Our file servers have a lot of mixed data, lots of folders where many files will archive, but a few wont (.ex...
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Darren_Locke's avatar
Darren_Locke
Level 6
12 years ago

Check out this whitepaper:

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/consolidating-and-migrating-file-servers-enterprise-vault-file-system-archiving

You can run robocopy with the /XA:O switch to prevent it from recalling archived files. So robocopy with /XA:O for non-archived files and FSAUtility -pm for the placeholders.

You don't say what version of EV you are on, but ensure you are on 9.0.4 with the latest CHFs or 10.0.3 prior to running FSAUtility.

Darren