Create a Recovery Log

A recovery log allows you to export the latest revisions of documents or renditions from their streams folders to a location of your choice outside the vault in the event that the vault is unavailable. The documents can then be used normally until they can be replaced in the vault. Recovery logs should be created on a regular basis by a scheduled task similar to preparing backup files.

To create a recovery log with the Create Recovery Log Wizard:

1. In Meridian Enterprise Administrator, click EDM Server in the left pane. The active vaults are listed in the right pane.
2. Select the vault in the right pane for which you want to create a recovery log.
3. From the Action menu, point to All Tasks and select Create Recovery Log Wizard. The Create Recovery Log Wizard appears.
4. Click Next. The Select Vault page appears.
5. Click options or type values using the descriptions in the following table.

Recovery log options

Option	Command Line Parameter	Description
Select the vault for which a recovery log will be created	<VaultName>	Click Browse and select the vault to create a recovery log for.
Create rendition log	/RENDITIONS	Select this option to create a recovery log for the document renditions only. Clear this option to create a recovery log of the document native files only.
Incremental recovery log	/INCREMENTAL	Select this option to create a recovery log of only the documents that have been added to the vault since the last recovery log was created. Clear this option if this is the first time a recovery log has been created for this vault or to create a new, complete recovery log.

6. Click Next. The Specify Recovery Log Location page appears.
7. Type a path and file name or click Browse, select a path, type a file name to store the recovery log, and click Save.

8. Click Next. The When to Create Recovery Log page appears.
9. Select Now to create the recovery log immediately upon finishing the wizard. Select Later to select options to schedule a job to run at a later time:

   1. Type a user ID and password for the job to run as and click OK. By default, the job will be repeated daily at the current time.

      Note:

      We recommend that you specify a user account with a password that never expires. If the user account is removed or the password either expires or is changed, the scheduled task will fail and recovery logs will not be created.

   2. Click Set Schedule to modify the job’s schedule in the new dialog that appears. Select options on the Schedule page to coordinate the job with other tasks running on the computer and the time when regular system backups occur.
   3. Click OK when finished. A new job is created for the Windows Task Scheduler that may be modified with the normal Windows administration tools. For more information about Task Scheduler, refer to the Windows documentation.
10. Click Next. The Configure Recovery Log Cleanup page appears.
11. Click options or type values using the descriptions in the following table.

Recovery log cleanup options

Option	Command Line Parameter	Description
Do not automatically remove old log files		All existing incremental recover log files are retained when the program runs.
Automatically remove log files older than	/DAYSTOKEEP=n	Existing incremental recovery log files older than the number of days specified for n are purged.

12. Click Next. The Completing the Create Recovery Log Wizard page appears.
13. Click Finish. The recovery log is created immediately or at the scheduled time.

To create a recovery log with a command line:

• Run the program AMRecLog.exe with the following syntax and the parameters described in the preceding tables. By default, the program is located in the folder C:\Program Files\BC-Meridian\Program.

AMRecLog.exe ["M:<ServerName>"] "<VaultName>" "<RecoveryLogfile name>" [/INCREMENTAL] [/DAYSTOKEEP=n]] [/RENDITIONS]