Can I empty and rebuild the "postindex" table in the database?

[beansbaxter]

I am trying to move a forum to a new server. On the export tables from phpmyadmin, everything is going out ok except the postindex table is too big to fully export.

When I try to export just the one "postindex" table from the database, which has over 5 million records, only about 3 million of those records actually export.

Does this table matter to run vbulletin? Can I rebuild the table from within vbulletin?

Anything good or bad I should know about this table? This is the only hangup I've had in exporting and I cant find a workaround.

[Trevor Hannant]

That table is only used for the vBulletin search engine. If you are using the fulltext search engine then that table is not used. The same goes for the word table.

However, I'd recommend NOT using phpMyAdmin for a backup of that size. If you have SSH access, then use that instead.