To shrink or not to shrink...

Denise Bowker

We are about to migrate our TS installation from one box to another. We have two choices on moving our backing store
1) copy the whole backing store
2) iwmigrate just the last 30 (90?) days worth of editions

Our current backing story was originally created in November 2005 and we create editions every night on about 15 branches. Some branches are quite active while others are quite static, but still a new edition is created nightly.

It is very rare that we need anything older than 30 days. Our plan is to copy the whole backing store over but name it ..._archive to keep it separate and if necessary we can mount it to get to the old data.

Here's the question. Is it worth the hassle of doing that or should we just copy over the whole backing store and use it intact. Does the system run faster with a smaller backing store? Other than waiting minutes to get a list of editions are there any compelling reasons to scrape off just the last 30/90 days?