Enterprise Vault 8 High Availability best practice ?
Hi People, I got Symantec Enterprise v 8.0 SP4 as a VM which uses Physical RDM capability to leverage EMC SnapView replication from production site to DR site LUN level, however I wonder if this is the correct procedure since I cannot find any way to to create DR instance of EV that can be used in the disaster recovery scenario ? What are my options and how to achieve that in case the primary site is down completely in terms of Server and the storage ?Solved1.8KViews3likes9CommentsHow to manage the Enterprise Vault data content when it grows big and you are running out of disk space ?
Hi People, Can anyone suggest to me what is the best way to manage and sustain the Enterprise Vault data that grow bigger and larger every month ? My situation is that whenever my Exchange Server 2007 database drive is running low of disk space, I'd go to lower down the EV archive items from 6 months into 5 months and now down to 3 months just to create some room to breathe in the Exchange Server mailbox. I understand that this is not resolving the problem in the best way as it should since we just shifting away the disk space usage from Exchange into the Enterprise Vault. However what are my options to manage and sustain the growing data in the EV ? Can i offload to tape for the Vault data disk and then deleting it manually, what happens with the indexing and search when the data is archived to tape and I want to retrieve it later for some reason ? Any kind of assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.Solved2.3KViews3likes12CommentsSymantec Enterprise Vault Archive Vault backup & Virus Scanning best practice
People, I'd like to know if it is best practice to do the following: 1. install Antivirus (Symantec End Point Protection), if yes then how to exclude certain things or not recommended at all ? 2. How do you guys backup to tape the Enterprise Vault archive to reuse the disk space so that the Vault is not keeps growing ? my Backup software is EMC Avamar and Networker (to write to tape). Can anyone please shed some light in this matter. ThanksSolved2.3KViews3likes12CommentsEV 10.0.1 - with EMC2 Centerra / Manual archiving don't work or hangs
Hello Forum-Members, 1, Overview about our enviroment: -Enterprise Vault Server Version 10.0.1 with one EV-Site and 4 EV-Servers -4 Vault Stores on 4 EV-Servers running on virtual VMware hosts with Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard SP1 (4 vCores / 16GB vRAM) -Storage: EMC² Centerra Storage with active C-Clips -Exchange Enviroment: 8 Mailbox Servers running on Windows Server 2003 SP2 Clusters with Exchange 2003 SP3 -Outlook 2003 (11.8325.8324) or Outlook 2010 (14.0.0.6117) on Client Side with EV Client 10.0.0.1316 2, Problemdescription: The old 2 phyhical EV-Servers which hosted the EV-Site in the past were changed to 4 virtual EV-Servers -We enabled the Centerra Collection (C-Clip) - (was not active in the old enviroment) -Also we enabled in the "Vault Store Properties" General tab "Remove safty copies:" from the old setting "Immediately after archiving" to "After Backup". These were the main changes during the migration. Now we have the problem that manual archiving don't work like before. It's a very strange behavior because -sometimes the manual archiving works fine and fast (aprox. under 1 minute till the pending state disappeared to archived state), -sometimes the pending state of an item takes hours till it is archived and -sometimes it will spend in the pending 3, Tested workarounds: (negative results) - changed the setting at "Vault Store Properties" General tab "Remove safty copies:" back to "Immediately after archiving" - Deleting the Vault Cache on Client side and made an initial synchronize - ResetEVClient.exe If you need any Logs we can provide it in this thread. Thxs in advance! BenediktSolved954Views1like3CommentsEnterprise Vault backup best practice document ?
Hi People, Can you please share me the Enterprise Vault 8 backup best practice ? I'm not sure which file to delete / purge after the successful backup with EMC Avamar backup software because the disk space is running very low and I cannot add more hard drive into the EV server due to the Storag array got no more disk to attach.Solved658Views1like2Comments
Need official Symantec clarification on cryptic instructions to backup Vault 8.0
We recently upgraded our Vault environment to 8.0sp5 from 2007. I am trying to get the backup procedure to work properly but I need clarification from Symantec. We use Netbackup 7.x without the Vault Agent for Netbackup. This uses the bpstart and bpend batch files. The main areas I need clarification are: After running the powershell script to create the list of EV backup mode commands for my environment I am confused about which of the commands need to be called. The file is divided into Site, VaultStoreGroup, VaultStore, and SiteIndexLocations. Currently we have only one Vault server for email but soon we will have others for files and possibly Sharepoint. Which commands do I need to call and in what order to start backup mode and end backup mode? Our Vault partitions are on a back-end EMC Celerra (not to be confused with Centerra). We back those up via different means and thus need to use the IgnoreArchiveBitTrigger.txt file. Symantec recommends calling a simple "echo > {drive}:\vaultstores\vaultpartition\IgnoreArchiveBitTrigger.txt" during our backup routine to create the trigger file every time. Where should these commands go? In the bpstart file? In the bpend file? Where in the file? Before or After the Vault backup mode powershells? Since we aren't using the Netbacup Vault agent and we call our SQL backups via the bpstart entry to a third-party app (SQLSafe) are there any special commands I need to call in the database portion of the backup so that when it is complete it somehow let's Vault "know" that the SQL backup is complete? We run weekly fulls and daily diffs on the SQL and I get constant nags from Vault in the event logs that the databases haven't been backed up in X days. I am open to all clarifications. -Thanks -ASolved3KViews1like12CommentsGet RelativeFileName from a Centera Clip-Id
Hello, our architechture in Enterprise Vault platform is currently using two mirrored EMC Centera as storage. EMC support has told us that the size used between both Centera is mismatched and they're sure it's because a corrupted Clip-Id that EV stored once. We're using collections, so I'm afraid there might be a complete collection stored with corruption, and EMC has asked if we can try searching the original files or even remove them. I've seen some SQL queries to find out Clip-Ids for a SavesetId in Symantec tech note http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH43224, but I'm just trying to unluckily do the opposite, get a RelativeFileName having a Clip-Id. Any ideas? Reward is offered Thank you in advanced, Jesus.Solved783Views1like2Comments