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doctortt
Level 6
16 years ago

Roll-over journal archive?

I'm new working in this company. I'm assigned to maintain this EV environment. EV journaling is used. I see tons of roll-over journal archives in the console. I'm guessing that it's to limit the size of the journal archive?
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  • TonySterling's avatar
    TonySterling
    16 years ago

    The index volume associated with the journal archive will roll over instead of the archive rolling over.

     

    here is the blurb from the Updates.htm from EV 6 sp1.

     

    Increased capacity for archive indexes — "index volumes"

    Enterprise Vault 6.0 SP1 introduces "index volumes" to increase the maximum number of items that can be stored in an archive.

    Before Enterprise Vault 6.0 SP1, each archive's index was a single AltaVista index. The number of items that could be stored in the AltaVista index limited the number of items in the archive. The number varied, but was typically between 1.5 and 2.5 million items.

    When an index, and hence an archive, became full, Enterprise Vault reacted in one of two ways:

    • For Journal and Shared archives, Enterprise Vault created a new "rollover archive" to store further items.
    • For all other archive types, Enterprise Vault rejected all attempts to add more items to the archive.

    In Enterprise Vault 6.0 SP1, when an index volume becomes full, a new index volume is automatically created. In the Administration Console the Advanced tab of an archive's properties shows "Number of index volumes".

    The new index volume does not have the same index root path as the previous index volume. The new location for the new index is a random selection from the Indexing Service's open index root paths.

    Some users may see changes in the Outlook integrated search application, the Browser Search, and Archive Explorer.

    If an archive has more than one index volume, the initial search is performed on the current index volume. To view search results from earlier index volumes, the user must choose a date range from a list. The date ranges correspond to the archived date range of items in the index volumes.

    The initial search is performed against the current index volume, which is the one containing the most recently-archived items.

    Most users will not see any change because rollover is unlikely to occur for normal mailbox archives. The archives that are likely to rollover are FSA archives, Journal archives, and Public Folder archives. When these archives roll over, users with access to them will be able to select a date range to search.

    Rollover archives created before Enterprise Vault 6.0 SP1 are not merged back into the master archive. Archiving continues to the current rollover archive and that archive’s index will expand to multiple index volumes as necessary. Rollover archives will not be created after Enterprise Vault 6.0 SP1. 

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  • TonySterling's avatar
    TonySterling
    Moderator
    16 years ago

    What version of EV?  Before EV 6 sp1 the actual archive would roll over at a certain size.   Since EV 6 sp1 the Index Volume will roll over.

     

     

  • doctortt's avatar
    doctortt
    Level 6
    16 years ago

    I found out that they started using EV since version 5.0. EV is now on 2007.  So what is the normal behavior in 2007 for roll-over? Thanks

  • TonySterling's avatar
    TonySterling
    Moderator
    16 years ago

    The index volume associated with the journal archive will roll over instead of the archive rolling over.

     

    here is the blurb from the Updates.htm from EV 6 sp1.

     

    Increased capacity for archive indexes — "index volumes"

    Enterprise Vault 6.0 SP1 introduces "index volumes" to increase the maximum number of items that can be stored in an archive.

    Before Enterprise Vault 6.0 SP1, each archive's index was a single AltaVista index. The number of items that could be stored in the AltaVista index limited the number of items in the archive. The number varied, but was typically between 1.5 and 2.5 million items.

    When an index, and hence an archive, became full, Enterprise Vault reacted in one of two ways:

    • For Journal and Shared archives, Enterprise Vault created a new "rollover archive" to store further items.
    • For all other archive types, Enterprise Vault rejected all attempts to add more items to the archive.

    In Enterprise Vault 6.0 SP1, when an index volume becomes full, a new index volume is automatically created. In the Administration Console the Advanced tab of an archive's properties shows "Number of index volumes".

    The new index volume does not have the same index root path as the previous index volume. The new location for the new index is a random selection from the Indexing Service's open index root paths.

    Some users may see changes in the Outlook integrated search application, the Browser Search, and Archive Explorer.

    If an archive has more than one index volume, the initial search is performed on the current index volume. To view search results from earlier index volumes, the user must choose a date range from a list. The date ranges correspond to the archived date range of items in the index volumes.

    The initial search is performed against the current index volume, which is the one containing the most recently-archived items.

    Most users will not see any change because rollover is unlikely to occur for normal mailbox archives. The archives that are likely to rollover are FSA archives, Journal archives, and Public Folder archives. When these archives roll over, users with access to them will be able to select a date range to search.

    Rollover archives created before Enterprise Vault 6.0 SP1 are not merged back into the master archive. Archiving continues to the current rollover archive and that archive’s index will expand to multiple index volumes as necessary. Rollover archives will not be created after Enterprise Vault 6.0 SP1.