Creating Document Archives
SmartVault stores data in a SAS 70 Type II compliant data center that provides the redundancy, power and network connections needed to securely host your data and ensure the availability of your documents when you need them.
These facilities provide a 99.9% network uptime guarantee and 24x7x365 monitoring, as well as intrusion prevention systems to prevent unauthorized electronic access.
However, you can also use the SmartVault Drive to create your own personal document archive on your local computer or on a network drive at any time.
Before you can edit documents using the SmartVault Drive, you must map a SmartVault Drive. For more information about mapping SmartVault Drives, see
“Understanding and Mapping SmartVault Drives” .
To create your own personal document archive on your local computer or on a network drive:
1. Map a SmartVault Drive.
Note: You only need to map a SmartVault Drive once. However, you must map a drive before you can create folders in your SmartVault Drive and upload documents to the SmartVault portal using a SmartVault Drive.For more information about how to map a SmartVault Drive, see
“Understanding and Mapping SmartVault Drives” .
2. Open Windows Explorer or Mac Finder and browse to your SmartVault Drive.
3. Select your SmartVault Drive.
4. Browse to and select the folder that contains the documents you want to archive.
5. If you want to create an archive of all documents stored in SmartVault, right-click your SmartVault Drive, and then click Copy.
6. If you want to create an archive of all documents stored in a specific vault or folder, right-click the vault or folder, and then click Copy.
7. Right-click a folder on your local computer or on a network drive where you want to create your archive, and then click Paste.
