Windchill System Administrator's Guide

Maintaining Your Vaults
Changing the path value associated with a mount makes all files stored in the
previous location inaccessible until they are moved to the new path location. Use
the following update procedure to avoid download failures when you are changing
a mount location:
1. Update the folder and assign it read-only status to prevent additional files
from being uploaded to the current location.
2. Copy the existing files to the new storage location.
3. Update the mount with the new path specification.
4. Update the folder again to clear the read-only status.
To free up disk space, you may want to perform periodic maintenance on vaults
and folders to remove unreferenced files. An unreferenced file is one that no
longer has a valid association to a Windchill object. Select Object > Remove
Unreferenced Files to perform this clean-up operation.
When you request removal of files, those files are permanently deleted from the
host system. Therefore, the system issues a message suggesting that you request
backup information before continuing with the clean-up operation. When you
select New > Generate Backup Info, the Windchill method server writes to the
log file identified by the $(wt.fv.log.mountInfoFile) property in the wt.properties
file. This file contains file vault mounting information, in the following format:
You can use this file to configure your system back-up tool for effective
protection of your file vaults. If you are not setting properties through a graphical
user interface or in a mapping rules file, you add or edit properties with the
xconfmanager utility, which is discussed elsewhere in this guide.
In addition, the following rules govern deletion of vault objects:
• When a host with mounts is deleted, all the mounts associated with that host
are also removed. Consequently, folders associated with this host are no
longer mounted to it, but may remain mounted to other hosts.
• You cannot delete a vault that contains folders.
• You cannot delete a folder that contains content files.
• When a folder is deleted, all of its mount connections are also removed.
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