Export and import of volume data

Metadata and full-text indexed data can be collected or exported from separate locations, such as data servers in various offices of the enterprise. When the data is available, it can be imported to a single location, such as a headquarter's office data server, where selected files might be retained.

Only primary and retention volume data can be exported or imported with the export and import feature. Discovery export and system volumes cannot be imported or exported. The target location of an export or the source location of an import is always the IBM® StoredIQ® system volume.

Export and import volume processes can be run as jobs in the background. These jobs are placed into their prospective queues, and they are run sequentially. When one job completes, the next one automatically starts. These jobs can be canceled at any time while they are running. Canceling one import or export job also cancels all the jobs that come after the one canceled. Because the export jobs and import jobs are in separate queues, canceling one type of job does not cancel jobs in the other queue. The jobs cannot be restarted.