Moving an Indexing service

The instructions in this section let you do the following:

Move an Indexing service and all its data to a different computer.
Combine two or more Indexing services into one.
Move some of an Indexing service's data to a different Indexing service.

Warning:

We strongly recommend that you do not move an Indexing service because of the amount of work involved and because of the potential for introducing mistakes that take time to rectify.

You require a database tool for viewing and changing data stored in the Enterprise Vault Directory service. Some examples of such tools are VisData (a sample application provided with Microsoft Visual Basic) and Query Analyzer (part of Microsoft SQL Server). The following instructions do not include details of how to set up your database tool to access the Vault Directory database.