Forum Discussion

John_Santana's avatar
John_Santana
Level 6
11 years ago

Rehydrating /recalling the archived file from EV

Hi people,

Can anyone please let me know what is the best way to safely and the suggested way to recalling file from the Archived Vaults ?

and I wonder if it is possible to know beforehand what is the total capacity needed on the target file server before I rehydrate all of the files to avoid disk space issue.

Thanks.

Best Practice
Enterprise Vault
Information Governance
Tip-How to
Windows Server (2003-2008)
  • GabeV's avatar
    GabeV
    11 years ago

    Hello John,

    If you want to recall all the placeholders in a file server, you can take a look at the Usage report to have an idea how much data has been archived and how much space you need in your file server to recall all the placeholders. Open a browser on your Enterprise Vault server and go to:

    http://localhost/EnterpriseVault/usage.asp

    In addition, to recall the placeholders, you can use the FSAUtility using the -b switch on a specific volume:

    http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO37840

    I hope this helps.

  • Rob_Wilcox1's avatar
    Rob_Wilcox1
    11 years ago

    May I ask why you want to recall all the items?

     

    You may want to consider our FSA Migrator product as a staged alternative to FSAUTILITY offering many cool features.

13 Replies

Sort By
  • GabeV's avatar
    GabeV
    Level 6
    11 years ago

    Hello John,

    If you want to recall all the placeholders in a file server, you can take a look at the Usage report to have an idea how much data has been archived and how much space you need in your file server to recall all the placeholders. Open a browser on your Enterprise Vault server and go to:

    http://localhost/EnterpriseVault/usage.asp

    In addition, to recall the placeholders, you can use the FSAUtility using the -b switch on a specific volume:

    http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO37840

    I hope this helps.

  • Rob_Wilcox1's avatar
    Rob_Wilcox1
    Level 6
    11 years ago

    May I ask why you want to recall all the items?

     

    You may want to consider our FSA Migrator product as a staged alternative to FSAUTILITY offering many cool features.

  • John_Santana's avatar
    John_Santana
    Level 6
    11 years ago

    Rob, the reason is that it is my company decision to not use EV FSA anymore.

    hence I need to recall all of the files in the vault back to each of the directory where they used to resides.

    The problem is that I also need to know beforehand how much does the disk space needed ?

     

    it would be great to know the archived file size in total.

  • Rob_Wilcox1's avatar
    Rob_Wilcox1
    Level 6
    11 years ago

    There are SIS reports in the EV Reports suite, I think. They'll give you the original size...

  • TonySterling's avatar
    TonySterling
    Moderator
    11 years ago

    Do you only have one vault store for FSA?  This query might help:

    SELECT ArchivedDate = left (CONVERT (varchar, ArchivedDate,20),7)
    ,YearlyRate = COUNT (*)
    ,Size = SUM(CONVERT(bigint,itemsize))/1024
    FROM saveset
    WHERE ArchivedDate > dateadd("YY", -5, getdate ())
    GROUP BY left(CONVERT (varchar, ArchivedDate,20),7)
    ORDER BY ArchivedDate DESC

    It will be broken down by year and if you need more than 5 years just change the WHERE clause.
     

  • John_Santana's avatar
    John_Santana
    Level 6
    11 years ago

    Tony,

    The script that you posted, what is the size is in ? KB or MB ?

    SELECT ArchivedDate = LEFT (CONVERT (VARCHAR, archiveddate, 20), 7), 
           YearlyRate = Count (*), 
           Size = Sum(CONVERT(BIGINT, itemsize)) / 1024 
    FROM   saveset 
    WHERE  archiveddate > Dateadd("YY", -5, Getdate ()) 
    GROUP  BY LEFT(CONVERT (VARCHAR, archiveddate, 20), 7) 
    ORDER  BY archiveddate DESC