Decommissioning Enterprise Vault
Hello,
We have 2 EV's EV1 is responsible to archive Exchange mail archives, EV2 was responsible for Exchange Journal Archive on the same site. There is two Vault Store under one Vault Store Group. One for Mail Archive(Index and Vault Store and partitions on EV1), other one for Journal Archive(Index, Vault Store and partitions on EV2). Share within the Vault Store selected.
It was stoped archiving Journal with EV2 two years ago. There is Journal Vault Store, 2 closed partitions and Index still resting on EV2. (1TB Journal Archive)
We decided to remove EV2 from system. By deleting old Journal Archive. I did read articles including this one:
https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100002202
My senario was;
- Delete Journal Archive (Is Index will be delete same time?)
- Delete Partitions
- Delete Journal Vault Store
- Delete EV2 Services as in the article above.
- Then delete EV2 from EV1's Administrator Console.
I take over this EV Domain 1 month ago. Two Vault Stores exist here one for mail archiving, one for Journal archiving. Sharing within the VaultStore selected under Vault Store Group. But this was maybe changed before. I don't know the history of this domain. How can I be sure this was never shared within the group before?
What is the recommended way to get rid of my EV2?
Thanks
Vaultlearner
Hello Vault Learner,
Is there a retention for the Journaled items? If yes, you need to set that SAME retention to 1 year, and set it to allow deletions. IF your data is on WORM, start expiring that Journal Archive(s).
The caveat is indeed "share within group". It is (as far as I know) not possible to determine when that was set, just that it is set. The only thing you can do is indeed to do the steps you indicated. When removing the partition(s) in EV, they either will delete, or you will get a message "it cannot be deleted due to shared data". If that is the case, you can move the partitions to EV1 server. (see this KB), then delete the services, remove the server etc.
Hello,
You need to check the retention definition, to see if it allows deletion. If your archive is on WORM, you are in trouble..
Before you delete the archive from the console, first check how many items you have in there. A large archive can take weeks, if not months to delete.
Items in archive: on EV Server, log in as VSA. Open browser, goto http : // localhost / enterprisevault / usage.asp
(remove spaces :) )
In the webpage showing, check items in Journal Archive.
