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lchase12's avatar
lchase12
Level 0
8 years ago

Move Archive Questions

Does EV “Move Archive” support moving from Centera archive to an archive that uses HCP streamer. Does EV “Move Archive” support moving from Centera archive to an archive that uses EMC (ECS) streamer...
daveoflave's avatar
daveoflave
Level 4

Hi Ichase,

  Yes, to answer both of your first questions.  You can use Move Archive (MA) to move from archives that are stored on Centera to archives that will be stored on HCP; and from archives stored on Centera to archives stored on ECS.

    Those are not archive types, rather your storage platform that you keep your archives on.  As long as the data is retrievable in the source, and the destination is writable, the MA subtask really doesn't care what you're stored on.  It uses an API to retrieve and copy the data, and our storage service in either device type handles the rest. 

As far as the "other" types that MA can't support - you're right, generally non-standard-mail type archives. 

We CAN use MA to move Exchange mailbox, Exchange Journal (vault store to vault store within a single site), or Domino mailbox  and Domino Journals (vault store to vault store wihtin a single site) archives as well. 

We CAN NOT use MA to move the types you had listed; those are all accurate.  The only "others" I can think of are Inernet Mail (IMAP) and SMTP.  While they're still "mail," they're not the traditional mailbox-style archives the industry has used for so many years.  Hope this helps!

daveoflave's avatar
daveoflave
Level 4
8 years ago

Also a side note: EV will only close those archives after the Move is done, not delete them - which is another reason why MA doesn't care about the storage.  If we were talking about deletions, then yes, the compliance/WORM devices would have to be considered to know if deletions would even work.  But MA doesn't take that step, so again, you're ok. 

  • plaudone1's avatar
    plaudone1
    Level 6
    8 years ago

    Hi, 

    For the FSA data FSAUtility will only work if the path on the file server is changing.  It cannot move the storage data alone to another vault store.  Using the -m option it can move current archive data to an existing archive that is in another vault store.  

    This is not an EV process for the migration of archived data from one archive, or one storage type to another.  

    Typically, with large amounts of data/archives a third party is involved to script the process so that the migration can be performed more quickly. 

     

    Regards, 

    Patrick