Restoring Enterprise Vault partitions

When you restore an open partition, Backup Exec automatically restores the partition’s associated vault store database in the same restore job. By including the vault store database, Backup Exec maintains synchronization between the two components.

Note:

Restoring an open partition means that the partition that you select for restore is currently open on the destination Enterprise Vault server.

During an open partition restore job, the Enterprise Vault Agent restores the vault database that was backed up at the time the partition was backed up. If the vault database backup does not exist, an existing backup of the vault database is restored instead. The Enterprise Vault Agent selects a backup of the vault database that was backed up closest to the time of the partition backup.

For example, if you restore an open partition that was backed up at 10:00 A.M., the Enterprise Vault Agent restores the 10:00 A.M. backup of the vault database. If you do not have 10:00 A.M. backup of the vault database, but you have a 9:45 A.M. backup, the Enterprise Vault Agent automatically restores the 9:45 A.M. backup.

After you restore open, closed, or Enterprise Vault 8.x Ready partitions, you must run the Enterprise Vault recovery tool. The recovery tool maintains synchronization between the vault store database and its associated partitions.

See your Enterprise Vault documentation.

To restore an Enterprise Vault partition

  1. On the navigation bar, click the arrow next to Restore.

  2. Click New Restore Job.

  3. In the Restore Job Properties pane, expand All Resources.

  4. Expand a Directory on <Computer_name> that contains the partition that you want to restore.

  5. Do the following:


    To restore an Enterprise Vault 7.x partition

    Do the following in the order listed:

    • Expand an Enterprise Vault site that contains the server where the partition that you want to restore resides.

    • Expand the Enterprise Vault server that contains the partition that you want to restore.

    To restore an Enterprise Vault 8.x partition

    Do the following in the order listed:

    • Expand an Enterprise Vault site that contains the partition that you want to restore.

    • Expand the vault store group that contains the partition that you want to restore.

  6. Expand Partitions.

  7. Expand a partition that contains the partition that you want to restore.

  8. Select the backup set that you want to restore.

  9. In the task pane, under Settings, select Enterprise Vault.

  10. Select the restore options you want to use.

    See Enterprise Vault restore options.

  11. Do one of the following:


    To run the job now

    Click Run Now.

    To schedule the job to run later

    Do the following in the order listed:

    • In the task pane, under Frequency, click Schedule.

    • Set the scheduling options.

      See Scheduling jobs.

    • Click Submit.

  12. After the restore successfully completes, run the Enterprise Vault recovery tool.

More Information

Restoring an Enterprise Vault 7.x server to its original location

Redirecting the restore of Enterprise Vault databases to a different Microsoft SQL Server computer

Redirecting an Enterprise Vault restore job

Restoring Enterprise Vault partitions