Retrieving all Archived files

[JohnWWT]

Hi,
Do you know if there is a way to retrieve ALL archived files from Enterprise Vault Archive in one go.
At the moment we are having to use the Enterprise Vault Archive Explorer and manually select the contents of each folder to restore to its original location.
Surely there must be a quicker / automated way to do this?
Thanks
John

[GertjanA]

Hello JohnWWT,

If you are referring to Mail-archiving, you could export an archive to the original mailbox. (or to a pst)
If you are referring to FSA-archiving, I don't know ;) (not using it)

I'm sure someone from here will answer FSA possibility.

[JohnWWT]

Hi Gertjan,
No, we are not archiving mail yet, this is just data file archiving on the File server.
Thanks
John

[TonySterling · Accepted solution]

What version of EV?
You have a few options:

1.  Use FSAUtility

FSAUtility provides a method to restore some or all files to a volume or folder. This is accomplished with the -t option. It is important to note that the -t option will not recall placeholders, but rather all items archived at the target location. Additionally, only the 'newest' (highest version) will be restored, and these restored items will overwrite any existing items (files or placeholders). The files to be restored can be selected to those of a file type (with the -e switch) or all items archived after a certain date (-D switch).

Further details on the use of the FSAUtility can be found in the Utilities guide in the documentation folder on the installation media.

Related Documents:

319381: How to use the FSAUtility -t option
 http://support.veritas.com/docs/319381


308243: FSAUtility -c operation fails when run against an archive with more than 5 index volumes.
 http://support.veritas.com/docs/308243


287649: Symantec Enterprise Vault (tm) 7.0 - Utilities Guide
 http://support.veritas.com/docs/287649


289862: Symantec Enterprise Vault (tm) 2007 - Utilities
 http://support.veritas.com/docs/289862

2. Check out this technote:
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/284460.htm

You can use windows search and search tape backup option. What you need to bear in mind though is that these items will get returned back to placeholders on the next archiving run. To stop this happening you need to implement the RevertItemsToPlaceholders registry key and give it a value of 0

Also you need to ensure that the BypassRecalLimitsForAdmins registry key is also set with a value of 1

[JohnWWT]

Hi Tony,
We are running EV 2007 v7.5.
Basically we have a File server with archiving turned on. Files get archived to disk if they have not been modified for x amount of time and archived to tape if they have not been modified for x+y amount of time.
We are in the process of upgrading / replacing our servers and would like to retrieve all archived data from tape with the following exceptions, if the file has been deleted from the File server since being archived to tape, do not restore the file and if the file on the file server has a date modified more recent than that of the archived file on the tape, do not restore. We may have an issue too if an archived file has been moved to another location on the file server, when restoring from tape we will end with two copies of the file.
Ideally we would like to tell EV to fetch tape 1 and restore all archived files to their original location, then fetch tape 2 etc etc. with the above exceptions.
Hopefully this could be achieved usingthe FSAUtility and a few switched on the command line?
Thanks
John