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Confidence Check on Archiving Activity

Updated: 09 Feb 2012 | 2 comments
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Hi All

 

Can someone tell me the easiest and quickest way to check if an EV9 Exchange archiving activity has run over night and how much data was archived?

I don't have EV Reporting Services and so am looking for a log file or something similar

I get logs generated daily called 'MovedItemsUpdateSummary<servername><date>.txt' which have some detail but not as much as I would have expected for a full archive run.

This file is located in ..\Enterprise Vault\Reports\Exchange mailbox Archiving\   Is this the oly log file generated?

In the same directory I get a log file called EV_ARCHIVING_<servername>_<date&time>.TXT which contains a lot more info but I don't get regularly (the last one was about 6 weeks ago) - What is this log file and when\why is it generated?

 

Is there a better and easier way to get some confidence that the nightly archiving activity has run and an idea of the amount of data processed?

 

Thanks

Keir

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TonySterling's picture
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2012
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The EV_ARCHIVING_<servername>_<date&time>.TXT is a report generated when you run the archive task in report mode.

Since you don't have reporting you could look at the usage.asp  http://evserver/enterprisevault/usage.asp or run a sql query manually.

something like this:

select"Archived Date" = left (convert (varchar, archiveddate,20),10),"Daily Rate" = count (*),"Size" = sum (itemsize)from saveset

where archiveddate > dateadd("hh", -24, getdate ())

group by left(convert (varchar, archiveddate,20),10)

order by "Archived Date" Desc

 

I also share another sql on this post: https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/mai...

Tony Sterling
www.bluesource.net or www.bluesource.co.uk
Offices in the US and the UK

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2012
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Many thanks Tony! Certainly

Many thanks Tony! Certainly see a use for this in our environment also (we've no reporting going either, unfort)