When you use Enterprise Vault to export mailbox archives back to the original location or out to a PST file, Enterprise Vault processes the requests sequentially. This means that if you have a list of 10 or 20 or 100 mailbox archives that you want to export it can take some time to process them all. Below I'll describe an option to export them in parallel. It should be noted however that doing this may not mean that they are exported any faster, as there are other limits which will come in to play, such as storage speed and so on.

As mentioned above, the export process goes through each requested mailbox sequentially:

And that can take some time... especially if one or more of the mailbox archives is very large. The smaller exports then get stuck behind the big one.

What you can do though is when the first export starts running, you can click on...

Have you ever had a strange build up of temporary files on your Enterprise Vault Server?  Strange in that they're all the same size, and appear in a long row of sorts? Well the explanation might be that Enterprise Vault is trying to process a problem message.  The situation is described in this technote:

http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH206368

I know that issues like this are super tricky to find, and to fix, but really this could lead to quite a bad situation on your Enterprise Vault server. Have you ever had any issues with stuck/problematic messages, let me know in the comments below:

I've seen many questions on this topic from the Symantec Connect forums... People wonder what happens when an archive is exported back to Exchange, or out to a PST file. Some, well, many people, expect that exporting the archive does what the name implies: 'Moves' all the data back to the chosen location. That's not the case though. When you export an archive, the items in the archive remain unchanged.

There is one subtle exception. As you can see from this screenshot if you export all items you don't get any delete options:

On the other hand if you 'export all items from this root folder path' and choose from the root (ie \) folder you can have the option to delete the archived items too:

Do you migrate Enterprise Vault data to Amazon S3? I'm not sure how many people have ever done this, I've certainly not heard of anyone. I mean in someways it does make sense to have some of your Enterprise Vault data out in the cloud, and Amazon has a vast amount of storage in the S3 product.

However it looks like there is a problem currently with the glue between Enterprise Vault and Amazon, as described in this following technote:

http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH206024

Do you use Amazon S3 in this way?