Hints on a full backup for Vault please

[James_Slack]

Hi,

We have to do some major work on our Vault system and having just got a new backup system we need to backup everything from scratch.

I have been reading the Admin CHM and read what it says about backing it all up.

It comes across that it is best to stop all of Vault and back the lot up - but failing that you can stick it in read only mode and back it all up (stores, indexes, SQL etc).

Does anyone have any advice on this they can share?

I am on Vault 2007 and have about 4tb of data to get backed up before we start some major work.

When ever we did backups on the older version we had it always caused a lot of access (read only = vaulted mail not availiable) even though the backup scripts were setup correctly. Any issues like that with this version?

Cheers

James

[JesusWept3 · Accepted solution]

Well as much as a pain as they are , enabling collections is a good start, for the fact that its quicker to backup 1 x 10mb file as opposed to 100 x 100k files
and with the new ev8 OSIS you will have far more small DVS files than you would have had in EV2007.

Read-only is obviously the more efficient way to go about things, as it keeps the systems up and running without interruption to the users except for archiving.
Though restarting the services every so often to clear out memory etc is still a good idea.

You may want to also look at partition roll over and close a partition every quarter or half a year or even a year, that way when the partition is closed, nothing new will be written to it, so then you can do full/differential backups.

If you use After Backup as your Safety Copy mode on your partitions then you may want to look in to which types of backup remove the archive bit, so that you're not sitting with pending items for a week waiting for your backup to run and so items can be turned to shortcuts

the most efficient backups ive seen though have been snapshots and then backups made from the snapshots

[James_Slack]

Thanks for the info.

I wanted to change the collection settings before, but was not allowed the time to work on it... perhaps after this backup?!

I aim to start a new vault store partition every 100gb - which does help come backup time.

Would love to do a snapshot but dont have the means to do one for Vault... though we are moving this to our SAN so will do once finished... not that this helps now.

Thanks for the info.