Do contents of previous rollover volumes change?

asked on May 19, 2015

I'm planning to move a client's repository volumes from one server to another.

Their repository is configured to create a new rollover volume after the current reaches 20 GB.

I've robo-copied the volumes from the old to the new server.

I'm going to run it again to get any changes before changing the path in LF admin to point to the new location.

My question is, do I need to run robocopy against all 20 GB rollover volume folders again or just the latest one (that is around 5 GB)? Do the older 20 GB rollover volume folders ever change for any reason? Or are they "static" and in "stasis" and so I don't need to robocopy them again since their contents don't ever change? I know the images are stored in the volume folders and they don't change but I'm not sure if there's any metadata that could change?

If I need to do all of them, it'll take hours. If I only have to do the most current rollover to get any changes, it'll take about 30 minutes which would be a huge time saver.

Thanks

Jason

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replied on May 19, 2015

Metadata is stored in the database so that shouldn't be a concern. Generally the files in the older physical rollover volumes remain unchanged, but some situations you should be aware of are if users add pages to existing documents and if they have deleted documents.

If there exists a document that's stored in one of those older physical rollover volumes and they add more pages to that document, then the physical files get placed into the same physical rollover.
If they have deleted documents (which in turn deletes them from the older physical rollover volumes) then compliance may come into play so that's something that will need to be addressed.

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