In EV 10 How Do I Drop Indexes For Archives

[Ravi_Bhandari]

We have stopped using EV to Archive files here and I was wondering how to drop the Indexes related to these now defunct File Archives. We wish to free up the storage.

[TonySterling]

You can stop the Index Service and delete the indexes if you think that will help but I would consider the ramifications very carefully.

You will not be able to search for archived items if delete the indexes and if you decide you need the indexes you will either have to restore from a back up or rebuild, which can be very time consuming.

 

[AndrewB · Accepted solution]

have you archived any other data besides files? Mailbox, Journaling, Sharepoint, PSTs, etc? if so then your indexes contain more than just FSA data so be careful what you delete.

what are you doing with the files that have been archived? if you restore all the placeholders or dont need them and decide to delete the archives from EV then that process also deletes the corresponding indexes.

[Ravi_Bhandari]

Thanks for getting back, yes we have mailbox archiving working.

We started deleting the archives but it hasn't freed up any space on the drive holding the indexes. But to be honest the archive deletion process is taking a very long time.

Is there a way of deleting just the folders that contain index details for only the file system?

[TonySterling · Accepted solution]

The index locations will hold both FSA and Mailbox archives indexes, so it isn't as simple as just deleting a root folder.

I would suggest just continuing to to delete the FSA archives and let nature takes it couse.

[AndrewB]

nope, that's what i was telling you in my previous post.