Taking Forests and Partitions Online and Offline
You can take a forest or partition offline and store it in an archive, so that it is available to later bring back online, if necessary. The benefit of taking data offline is to spare the RAM, CPU, and network resources for the online data.
An offline forest or partition is excluded from query, update, backup, restore and replicate operations performed by the database to which it is attached. An offline forest or partition can be attached, detached, or deleted. Operations, such as rename, forest-level backup and restore, migrate, and combine are not supported on an offline forest or partition. If a forest is configured with failover, the replica forest inherits the online/offline setting of its master forest, so disabling an offline master forest does not trigger a failover.
For example, to take the 2011 range partition in the DB2 database offline, do the following:
$ cat partition-offline.xml <partition-properties xmlns="http://marklogic.com/manage"> <availability>offline</availability> </partition-properties>
$ curl --anyauth --user user:password -X PUT \ -d @partition-offline.xml -H 'Content-type: application/xml' \ http://MyHost:8002/manage/v2/databases/DB2/partitions/2011/properties