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Level 6

10 years ago

Reduce the index volume

The vault services stopped due to the index volume running at out space . We have added more space and are now up to 500GB .

That’s a lot of space being consumed, this seems very variable, how can I figure out why it’s grown/growing so much ?

Is there anything that can be done to reduce them ?

Enterprise Vault

Information Governance

Windows Server (2003-2008)

JesusWept3
10 years ago
Do you use the search feature at all? You could set the index to brief and it may reduce the indexes from 13% to 8% but it's only going to save a small amount In all honesty if you archive a lot of data, and don't expire, then this was always going to happen

GertjanA
Moderator
10 years ago
Hello Yobole,

Which EV-version? Which archiving (mail? Journal? FSA?)

You need to keep in mind that (if you do full indexing) the index-data is approximately 14% the size of the archived data for an archive. In other words, if you have an archive of 1GB, the index will be 140MB

Depending on your archiving rate and size, you should be able to determine if the size is correct.

To reduce in size, you can remove old archives, which will also remove the belonging index files. Otherwise you just will have to extend or add new disks.
yobole
Level 6
10 years ago
EV 10.0.4 and its just FSA and we dont expiry any images
JesusWept3
Level 6
10 years ago
Do you use the search feature at all? You could set the index to brief and it may reduce the indexes from 13% to 8% but it's only going to save a small amount In all honesty if you archive a lot of data, and don't expire, then this was always going to happen