A Interesting Question for the EV Guru's

[PATRICK_Kitchen]

HI Team

Scenario 2 EX2K3 SP2 boxes - 2000 mailbox's 1 KVS Server 6 SP2 - vault approaching 1TB hosted on a SAN.

Orgionally it was envisaged that emails would be kept forever but the rate of growth has far exceeded what was expected, so now we have enabled the facility so users can delete their own archives, the thought being that if needed there will be a copy of the email in the journal files.

Because of backup problems we have been splitting the vault drive up into partitions every quarter closing the old one and openinging a new on.

What happens to the closed partitions when email is deleted from them by the users do they automatically shrink and the space is reclaimed - what wonderful things happen in this case - I would like to hear from large users that have experienced similar problems in the past.

[Rob_Hanson]

Once all of the single instance copys have been removed, then the the partition will begin to reduce unless you have collections enabled.  if collectiosn are enabled all files within the CAB will need to be deleted before that CAB is deleted (it will remain the same size!).

[Michael_Bilsbor]

Hi,

yes, Rob is correct.  A closed partition doesn't affect expiry or anything like that.  A closed partition means we will no longer write to it, that's all.