Deleting a volume

You can delete a target volume if necessary. When you delete a volume, you remove the volume and all its folders from the list of volumes that are processed. If you merely intend to suspend archiving of this volume for a while, edit the volume's properties and select the option to not archive this volume.

You cannot delete a volume that is currently being processed.

Note that if you delete a volume from a target file server in the Administration Console, Enterprise Vault does not delete any associated archive points automatically. If you do not delete the archive points and then you re-add the volume for archiving, Enterprise Vault uses the existing archive points, which remain associated with the original vault store.

This can result in the following scenario:

You configure a volume for archiving, and specify that the volume is to use vault store 1.
When Enterprise Vault archives from the volume, it associates the archive points with vault store 1.
You then remove the volume from Enterprise Vault, without deleting the archive points.
You add the volume for archiving again, but you specify that the volume is to use vault store 2.
Enterprise Vault continues to archive any files under the original archive points to vault store 1.
If you add a folder under one of the original archive points, the folder is archived to vault store 1, not vault store 2.

To delete a volume

In the Administration Console, right-click the volume that you want to delete and then, on the shortcut menu, click Delete.

If there are folders on this volume that have been set up for archiving, there is a warning that deleting the volume deletes all its folders.
Click Yes.