Reusing content stores

Reuse your 4.5 or 5.0 content stores in your IBM® Connections 5.5 deployment.

About this task

While installing IBM Connections 5.5, you are prompted to specify the locations of the 4.5 or 5.0 content stores. Instead of creating new directories, you can specify the 4.5 or 5.0 content stores so that you can reuse that content in your 5.5 deployment.
Note: You must delete any Search-related data from your IBM Connections 4.5 or 5.0 content stores, such as indexes and statistics. The 5.5 installation generates new Search-related data.

Procedure

  1. Delete the data in content stores that are related to the Search application.
  2. Use the following table as a guide to deleting data that is recreated in the IBM Connections 5.5 deployment:
    Table 1. Content stores that must be deleted
    Content Store Location
    local_content_store/news/search/index
    local_content_store/profiles/cache
    local_content_store/search/backup
    local_content_store/search/index
    shared_content_store/news/search/indexReplication
    shared_content_store/search/dictionary
    shared_content_store/search/stellent/dcs/oiexport/exporter

    where shared_content_store is a content store on a shared storage device on a network and local_content_store is content that is stored on your local system.