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wilsond3010
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11 years ago

Moving Vault Stores

Wondering if this is even possible.   So our ev9 has growen and we want to redesign and move the vault stores. Is this even possible vault stores are spread over 3 drives just now g: h: i: ...
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  • JesusWept3's avatar
    JesusWept3
    11 years ago

    You can refer to this video on how to move vault store partitions:
    https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/videos/enterprise-vault-10-move-vault-store-partition

    A    nd it is possible to use Collection and Migration to move older items to secondary storage, such as NetBackup, however it will require collections (CAB Files) to be enabled, and also can lead to slower responses for things such as re-indexing (if you're converting from an EV9 32bit index to an EV10 64bit index for instance)

    And also If you move all the partitions to a single drive, you have to account for the fact that when you pull the data back from tape, you may run out of room

    For instance if you have Three 200GB drives full, and you export 150GB each to tape, thats 450GB
    You then put the three drives down in to a 300GB drive, you have 150GB of live data, and 150GB free
    But if you need to pull data back, you have 1/3 the space that you need for that to happen

    Which again could happen in a big DA export, a big EVSVR verification scan, upgrading indexes etc

    Also I have seen times when people put the wrong retentions on tapes, they migrate to NBU and a year later all the data is lost because the 1 year tape has been erased, and with it, all the migrated data