Vault Mirror is a utility that retrieves the latest version of all files to a dedicated mirror folder while retaining the folder hierarchy. Vault Mirror is included in the SDK of ADMS since release 2008, prior to that it was available on labs.autodesk.com. Now you can find it here: C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Data Management Server 2009\SDK\VS8\CSharp\VaultMirror\bin\Release.
There are multiple ways this tool can be used and probably more than what are listed here:
Making files available for viewing on a network share. Note that this means all files, not subject to any type of release management.
- Use as a Vault Recycle Bin: the administrator can easily restore single files or folders that have been deleted by mistake.
- Merging Vaults: customers may have separate Vaults on the same server or different servers they‘d like to merge. There is no current tool for this process as such, but with Vault Mirror you can pull the latest version of all files, merge in a local space, and then use Autoloader to repopulate a single merged Vault.
You can simply use the user interface to run the utility, with the added benefit that it remembers the last used setting (saved in settings.dat – note that user name and password are not encrypted, so set up a Vault Consumer “guest” account for this).
If you need to automate the process you can use a command line version which you can call with Windows Task Scheduler. Ideally you will use the user interface to run a full miror and then a scheduled partial mirror to only update new and modified files.
Some words on restrictions: it only pulls the latest version of ALL files, no items, no ECO data. For further information check out the readme file.
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