Backing up the Enterprise Vault 8.x Discovery Accelerator Configuration database and Discovery Accelerator customer databases

Use the following steps to back up the Discovery Accelerator Configuration database. You can also use these steps to back up the Discovery Accelerator customer databases.

Note:

The Enterprise Vault Agent automatically runs a physical consistency check of the Configuration database before it backs it up.

See About consistency checks for Enterprise Vault databases and Compliance and Discovery Accelerator databases.

To back up the Enterprise Vault 8.x Discovery Accelerator Configuration database and Discovery Accelerator customer databases

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

  2. Click New Backup Job.

  3. In the backup selections view, expand Enterprise Vault.

  4. Expand Accelerators.

  5. Expand Discovery <server_name>.

  6. Select Discovery DB (<SQLServer/instance>/EVDiscovery).

  7. Select Discovery Accelerator customer databases, if desired.

  8. In the task pane, under Settings, click Enterprise Vault.

  9. Select a backup method.

    See About backup methods for Enterprise Vault backup jobs.

  10. 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.

Backing up the Enterprise Vault 8.x Discovery Accelerator Configuration database and Discovery Accelerator customer databases