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MLamont
Level 2
13 years ago

Rollover partitions and Move Archive

Hi all,

I was wondering, can I use rollover partitions and Move Archive? I have a large journal archive (I know, move archive really isn't meant for this) and I want to use move archive to move it to a new vault store on new storage. Is it possible to create the new vault store, create a partition, and have rollover partitions enabled? The journal is somewhat large so I want to have the ability to add a new partition to the vault store I'm moving to in case space becomes a concern. 

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  • JesusWept3's avatar
    JesusWept3
    13 years ago

    you can set up a new partition any time you want, typically people use partition roll over when they have a set amount of disks they can't easily extend, and don't want to constantly watch the drive size, so you could set it to roll over when there is 5% free space left, for example.

    My question would be, whats the idea about moving the journal archive?
    You could just create a new archive for the new data to go to on another vault store and leave the journal data where it is, or you could simply move the partition to another drive.

    You can use move archive no problems, it will be ok for large archives as long as you have the current version of EV or all the move archive hotfixes you can get a hold of. But you won't be able to do it if you use Discovery Accelerator and you have legal holds on the archive.

  • AndrewB's avatar
    AndrewB
    Moderator
    13 years ago

    aside from move archive not being the greatest for huge archives like a journal, yes you can because the two concepts are mutually exclusive. setup your new vault store with multiple partitions configured in the rollover order you want them to use. then use move archive (or whatever other method) to move/add data to that new vault store and it will "fill and spill" writing to the new partitions based on the rollover settings you configured.

  • MLamont's avatar
    MLamont
    Level 2
    13 years ago

    Would I need to create a new vault for this? Or if the move was already underway would I be able to enable and create a rollover partition that could be used once the previous one is full?

    I guess what I'm asking is do you have to set up rollover partitions when creating the Vault or is it something that you can switch to later if you've already been using a vault and have almost filled the current partition.

  • JesusWept3's avatar
    JesusWept3
    Level 6
    13 years ago

    you can set up a new partition any time you want, typically people use partition roll over when they have a set amount of disks they can't easily extend, and don't want to constantly watch the drive size, so you could set it to roll over when there is 5% free space left, for example.

    My question would be, whats the idea about moving the journal archive?
    You could just create a new archive for the new data to go to on another vault store and leave the journal data where it is, or you could simply move the partition to another drive.

    You can use move archive no problems, it will be ok for large archives as long as you have the current version of EV or all the move archive hotfixes you can get a hold of. But you won't be able to do it if you use Discovery Accelerator and you have legal holds on the archive.

  • Sortid's avatar
    Sortid
    Level 6
    13 years ago

     

    We are about to go through the same exercise.  We will be setting up a new vault store and migrating everything into it to take advantage of SIS.  We realise DA will lock the archives and prevent the deletion of them, but at least the users and journal will be on new storage.  I am still going to create a new journal archive, but that's cos the existing one is massive.  Then it's a matter of time until the DA cases which are locking the archives are removed and we can get rid of the old storage.  

    I just need to confirm that Move Archive will move archives that are locked by DA but my test system just crapped itself.

  • JesusWept3's avatar
    JesusWept3
    Level 6
    13 years ago
    Move archive will not move archives that have legal holds placed against them