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Hello

 

We are using Exchange Mailbox archiving with +10 year retention. For a couple of years we have been using Content Indexing for these jobs, but it’s not needed any more. We have disabled CI and it’s valid for next archiving jobs, but how to clean up previous Content Indexing entries (without deleting archiving jobs)?

 

We would like just to free up space on CI disks as it’s not required any more.

 

As far as I know this procedure - https://documentation.commvault.com/11.20/deleting_content_index_of_specific_backup_job.html - points to Indexing V1 and we don’t have such option in our job history menu.

 

Kind regards,

Maciek

hello ​@Maciek 

there is a way to delete the Index folder manually, but it might be a bit risky as it could impact the search engine. If you prefer, you can retain the index in accordance with the data retention policy to ensure it's preserved.
https://documentation.commvault.com/2024e/expert/pruning_content_index_along_with_data.html

Best Regards,
Mohamed Ramadan
Data Protection Specialist


Hello

Your post points to “Pruning the content indexes along with the data is the default behavior.”. We would like to keep arching jobs while pruning/deleting only Search Engine entries related to these jobs.


Hello

Your post points to “Pruning the content indexes along with the data is the default behavior.”. We would like to keep arching jobs while pruning/deleting only Search Engine entries related to these jobs.

Ok set the retention period for the indexed data or you can either delete the content in the Index directory manually  

This way, the content indexes will be pruned before the data is pruned

Best Regards,
Mohamed Ramadan
Data Protection Specialist


Hello

Your post points to “Pruning the content indexes along with the data is the default behavior.”. We would like to keep arching jobs while pruning/deleting only Search Engine entries related to these jobs.

Ok set the retention period for the indexed data or you can either delete the content in the Index directory manually  

This way, the content indexes will be pruned before the data is pruned

Best Regards,
Mohamed Ramadan
Data Protection Specialist

 

Just deleting content of Search Engine directory? Not gentle/sophisticated way 😉 Maybe something more official & graceful?

 


Hello

Your post points to “Pruning the content indexes along with the data is the default behavior.”. We would like to keep arching jobs while pruning/deleting only Search Engine entries related to these jobs.

Ok set the retention period for the indexed data or you can either delete the content in the Index directory manually  

This way, the content indexes will be pruned before the data is pruned

Best Regards,
Mohamed Ramadan
Data Protection Specialist

 

Just deleting content of Search Engine directory? Not gentle/sophisticated way 😉 Maybe something more official & graceful?

 

dont worry ​@Maciek we do this alot for many CSTs during hardware refreshes for the search engine servers.
after removing the old search engine node from the CommCell, we simply delete it manually.

note: please ensure that content indexing is disabled first.

Best Regards,
Mohamed Ramadan
Data Protection Specialist


You assumed Ive deleted Search Engine node from the console what is wrong. This Search Engine is used and will be used for o365. We would like to delete only Exchange mailbox part of this Search Engine


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