Consolidating many almost empty vault stores
Created: 18 Jul 2012 | Updated: 07 Aug 2012 | 8 comments
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Question.
we have had EV ofr about 4 years, we are on Version 9, and I now have seven closed vault stores and the current open one.
Within the closed vault stores I am wasting over two Tera-Bytes of disk space because expiriy has taken out just about everything but due to Legal Holds the remaining data will be needed for a long time. We are running DA as well.
Is there a way to take the data from lets just say 4 of the vaults and migrate it to the 5th vault and free up the others to be reused or deleted?
The currecnt version is 9.0.3.1164
The currecnt verssion was a fresh install on server 2008R2 with version 9.01
We started using EV with version 7.5 or maybe 8 I'd have to do some digging if that makes a difference.
THank you
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You can move those closed partitions to one volume. Follow the steps here:
How to move a Vault Store partition or Vault Store on the same Enterprise Vault server from one location to another.
Tony Sterling
www.bluesource.net or www.bluesource.co.uk
Offices in the US and the UK
One quick question... If expiry has taken out 'lots' of the data... what is it exactly that is taking up the 'few terabytes' ?
Many Thanks,
Rob
www.quadrotech-it.com - All your EV Tools
PS I hope that the post proves helpful.
He said that Legal Holds are in place, so I would assume that is part of it.
Tony Sterling
www.bluesource.net or www.bluesource.co.uk
Offices in the US and the UK
hmm yeah.. but .. if there is 2-3 Tb of data (in legal hold) across half a dozen vault stores, after consolidation there will still be 2-3 Tb of data... what is it saving by performing the consolidation? (or maybe it's consultants hourly rates, eh???? hehe)
Many Thanks,
Rob
www.quadrotech-it.com - All your EV Tools
PS I hope that the post proves helpful.
Rob,
Sorry I was not 100% clear.
I have a few TB of wasted FREE space :-) my Vaults Stores are 400GB each x6 and 5 of them have 70GB used because expiriy has purged the rest.
I will try Mr Sterlings soultion aboe and see how it goes! I appreciate the help I have pokes and googled and did not find that.
I'll report back and mark it as the answer if it goes well and ask another question if I need to.
- S
Ah okay - partition data, gotya.
Many Thanks,
Rob
www.quadrotech-it.com - All your EV Tools
PS I hope that the post proves helpful.
Rather than consolidating them, you could simply open them again when your latest partition is full (you mentioned in your question that you possibly wanted to re-use them - I am assuming you mean for EV)
There are arguments for and against doing this though, and personally I would be consolidating the old ones on to one disk as Tony suggested.
Regards,
Jeff
Jeff,
that is an interisting idea, but this thing is like a china doll, fragile, but yet grumpy :-)
I agree I'll do the consolidation. It will have to wait for our next maintenca window so it will be about 3-4 weeks but I'll report back on oncce done!
Thank you, - S
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