As most of you know, controlling versions of drawings are our headaches. Most of VIS members would know that Hirata-san prepared an Autodesk Vault server in one of our PC with kind helps of Obuchi-san in ATC. I installed a Vault client to the other PC and so far did some local tries and experiments on the Vault. As a result, I found that in order to start life with Vault,
(1) the first thing to do is to prepare an single PC in which one can open inventor files without skipping any parts, and
(2) the second is to prepare a reliable server in terms of protecting our information from broken; so far Yoshizumi-san kindly does weekly backups with her hands.
More things to do would be to change the current structures of directories for the drawings, but I guess it's too late; to do would cost higher than not to do.
About (1), more precisely speaking, I can say several other ways, but I just show the most rapid and unified way I believe. The important thing is to "match" the directory structures in the Vault server and the directory structure of your workspace in any time if you want to reflect your work results to the Vault system, but not all files --- imagine a mathematical entity "set". The important thing is to keep a hierarchic structure of directories. It seems a SVN-like concept is used in the background. It would be nice if you learn slightly about SVN system before starting to use the Vault. KAGRA has as well a SVN sever prepared by Aso-san.