Pause and resume a crawl (Office SharePoint Server 2007)
Applies To: Office SharePoint Server 2007
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Topic Last Modified: 2016-11-14
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Pause a crawl of a particular content source
Resume a crawl of a particular content source
Before you perform the following procedures, we recommend that:
- You have read the topic Crawl content (Office SharePoint Server 2007).
Important
You must be a shared services administrator to perform the following procedure.
Pause a crawl of a particular content source
Use the following procedure to pause a crawl of a particular content source.
Note
You must be careful not to pause crawls for too many content sources at the same time, because each content source that is paused consumes memory on the index server.
Pause a crawl of a particular content source
Complete one of the following steps depending on the status of your installation.
If the Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers is installed, in Central Administration, on the Quick Launch, in the Shared Services Administration group, click a shared service.
On the Shared Services Administration page, in the Search section, click Search administration.
On the Search Administration page, on the Quick Launch, in the Crawling section, click Content sources.
Note
For more information, see Description of the Microsoft Office Servers Infrastructure Update (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=121886).
If the Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers is not installed, in Central Administration, on the Quick Launch, in the Shared Services Administration group, click a shared service.
On the Shared Services Administration page, in the Search section, click Search settings.
On the Configure Search Settings page, in the Crawl Settings section, click Content sources and crawl schedules.
On the Manage Content Sources page, point to the content source you want to crawl, click the arrow that appears, and then click Pause Crawl on the menu that appears.
Note
The value in the Status column changes to Pausing for the content source you selected.
Note that the value in the Status column on the page does not change when the crawl is paused. To update the Status column, refresh the Manage Content Sources page by clicking Refresh on the toolbar. When the crawl is paused, the value in the Status column changes to Paused.
Note
Depending on the content being crawled, this might take several minutes to complete.
Resume a crawl of a particular content source
Use the following procedure to resume a crawl of a particular content source.
Resume a crawl of a particular content source
Complete one of the following steps depending on the status of your installation.
If the Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers is installed, in Central Administration, on the Quick Launch, in the Shared Services Administration group, click a shared service.
On the Shared Services Administration page, in the Search section, click Search administration.
On the Search Administration page, on the Quick Launch, in the Crawling section, click Content sources.
Note
For more information, see Description of the Microsoft Office Servers Infrastructure Update (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=121886).
If the Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers is not installed, in Central Administration, on the Quick Launch, in the Shared Services Administration group, click a shared service.
On the Shared Services Administration page, in the Search section, click Search settings.
On the Configure Search Settings page, in the Crawl Settings section, click Content sources and crawl schedules.
On the Manage Content Sources page, point to the content source that you want to resume, click the arrow that appears, and then click Resume Crawl on the menu that appears.
Note
The value in the Status column changes to Crawling Full or Crawling Incremental depending on the type of crawl that was running at the time it was paused.