Purge Enterprise Vault DataBase

If you want to totally remove the database or delete it then you can just get into the console and Delete it.
If you want to decrease the size of the database first check for the events for the database of Online Maintenance which is 1221. This will give us the amount of free space and then you can run the eseutil /p against the database.

sorry it was eseutil /d that is defrag not /p

Ok, but that will be for exchange correct?

what I want to purge the DB for Enterprise Vault, not for exchange.

Please clarify.  

the EV SQL DB does not hold any data per se, it holds metadata.  Are you refferring to Vault Store?  

yes, you are correct.

The database shouldn't be that large as it holds metadata.  You would typically run a maintanance plan and shrink the database and logs as you would any other database

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH74666

Did you delete the users from Exchange or did you delete the user archives?  Are you running journaling?

my problem is with the EV Storage on Vault, I have 1.2 TB in use, but I deleted over 100 users and my size on the EV Storage sill the same.

I am referring the Symantec Vault Enterprise 8 storage not to exchange DBs

I understand.  Are you only doing mailbox archiving or are you doing MB Journaling as well?  If journaling is enabled is it going to a different vault store?

You can move the vault stores to lower tier storage if space is a concern..just as thought.

only mailbox archiving.
 the problem is i am running out of space, so I deleted those 100 account hoping to get more space, but didnt hapen, can you purge / compact the EV storage ? why didnt get lower after the 100 accounts that got deleted?

I am not sure but you can close out this partion, create a new one and setup rollover so it uses a new partition in a different location.  Probably a call to Symantec EV suport may help.  I'll be talking to the guys there tomorrow, I'll ask them as a sidebar

Did you get a change to ask the support guys?

also, how the rollover works?

Been dealing with Advanced team on a different issue no time to get this asked.  Rollover works where you create another volume and close the old one and use the new one for new data.  The old one becomes read only.

please close this question