Before You Start Internal Content Store Maintenance

To ensure that you do not lose any data that you wanted to keep, you should choose the find mode first and check the results before fixing the content store.

Missing data within the content store may cause updates to fail. Obsolete data may prevent you from creating new objects. When a content store maintenance task fixes the content store, it adds default values for the missing data, which you can update later. It also permanently deletes any obsolete data.

When you find and fix the data, the content store is not fixed while the content maintenance task is running. Instead, Content Manager fixes the inconsistencies in the content store the next time it starts up.

Important: After you run a content maintenance task to find and fix the content store, back up your content store before you restart Content Manager.

We recommend that you perform internal maintenance checks regularly, but it is particularly important to do so before you upgrade, to ensure the consistency of the content stores.