A full backup and differential backup (see New Scheduled Job) made of the document vault can be restored with the Restore Document Vault function. You can find it by opening the Document Vaults section in the M-Files Admin's tree-view.
The "Restore Document Vault" dialog.
First specify the source (backup files on the server) from which the backup (and differential backup, if desired) is to be restored. You can also determine whether the document vault is to be restored as a different vault (in which case M-Files will create a new identity for the vault) or with the vault's original identity. The identity is used in establishing document vault connections to the server (the name of the vault can be changed on the server, and the document vault connection can have any name in the regular user's client software).
You can also define the location for vault data, a separate location for file data under Advanced..., and whether or not to overwrite existing files.
Even if the document vault is destroyed, you can restore it if a backup has been made. For more information about backups, refer to Scheduled Jobs.