Deleting a vault store

You can delete a vault store that is no longer required. Deletion permanently removes all the partitions and archives that the vault store contains, and all the items that are stored in them.

You can delete a vault store only if all of the following conditions apply to the vault store:

When you delete a vault store, its status changes to Marked for Deletion. Shortcuts to items within the vault store's archives no longer work.

Enterprise Vault may take a long time to complete the deletion operation. If the vault store contains any items that are on legal hold, or any SIS parts that are referenced by other vault stores, Enterprise Vault marks the vault store for deletion but it does not delete the vault store until these conditions no longer apply.

Note:

If you delete a vault store, you cannot stop or undo the process. The action overrides any form of deletion protection that is applied to items or Retention Categories, other than legal hold.

To delete a vault store

  1. In the Administration Console, select the vault store group that contains the vault store that you want to delete.

  2. The right pane of the Administration Console displays the status of the group's vault stores. Click F5 to refresh the view. The right pane displays each vault store's current status, and indicates whether backup mode is set. You can only delete a vault store if the status is Available and backup mode is not set.

  3. Right-click the vault store that you want to delete and, on the shortcut menu, click Delete.

  4. On the warning dialog, click Delete.

    The status of the vault store changes to Marked for Deletion.

    When Enterprise Vault eventually completes the deletion, it removes the vault store from the list.