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John_Santana's avatar
11 years ago

Enterprise Vault maintenance on SQL Server which cause outage ?

Hi People,

How often does the EV server needs to be taken offline or all of the services is stopped so that the SQL Server maintenance can be performed based on the following Technote article:

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH74591
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH74666

I wonder as to why do I need to bring the EV server down first ?

Can this be done during the EV backup mode ? because my EV backup window for the Open Index and VaultStore partition takes about one week to finish.

  • If you keep the EV services running, there are chances that SQL Database table indexes might not rebuild. Because services may lock some of the table indexes. In that case, running maintenance to reduce the fragmentations will not give you better results.

  • Hi John,

    Getting that SQL maintenance right will definitely help. I have seen dramatic improvements in archive rate after an SQL clean up. EV is hugely dependent on SQL, if your SQL is not flying, neither will EV. follow the recommendations in tech74666, or even get a professional DBA to assist, it is well worth the effort.

    Use the SQL PActivity Monitor to see how it is doing.

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc879320.aspx

     

  • Hi John,

    Here are two very well-known sources that should help.

    http://ola.hallengren.com/sql-server-index-and-statistics-maintenance.html

    http://sqlfool.com/2011/06/index-defrag-script-v4-1/

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