Pause and resume a crawl (Search Server 2008)

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Applies To: Microsoft Search Server 2008

 

Topic Last Modified: 2009-06-17

In this article:

  • Pause a crawl of a particular content source

  • Resume a crawl of a particular content source

Note

Unless otherwise noted, the information in this article applies to both Microsoft Search Server 2008 and Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express.

Before you perform the following procedures, we recommend that:

Important

You must be a search services administrator to perform the following procedure. For more information, see Add or remove a search services administrator (Search Server 2008).

Pause a crawl of a particular content source

Use the following procedure to pause a crawl of a particular content source.

Important

We recommend not pausing 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

  1. On the Search Administration page, in the Search section, click Search settings.

  2. On the Configure Search Settings page, in the Crawl Settings section, click Content sources and crawl schedules.

  3. On the Manage Content Sources page, click the content source that you want to pause, and then select Pause Crawl in the dropdown list.

    The value in the Status column changes to Pausing for the content source you selected.

  4. 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

  1. On the Search Services Administration page, in the Search section, click Search settings.

  2. On the Configure Search Settings page, in the Crawl Settings section, click Content sources and crawl schedules.

  3. On the Manage Content Sources page, click the content source that you want to resume, and select Resume Crawl in the dropdown list.

    Note

    The value in the Status column for the content source changes to Crawling Full or Crawling Incremental depending on the type of crawl that was running at the time it was paused.