Changing retention category from Forever to 3 years

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Good Morning,Over the weekend we changed our retention period for Exchange archiving from Forever to 3 years. We noticed so far it has deleted over 8 million items but the disk space has not gone down? Does anyone know when will the disk space go down? Also is there any idea on how to check how many items are left to be deleted?Thanks,

gertjana · Accepted Answer

Hello,
The process is described in the below two articles. It might be items are being deleted from the indexes, but not necessarily yet from storage. That might happen after the index deletion has finished, but also might take longer if you use 'collection' files.
https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100023091.htmlhttps://vox.veritas.com/t5/Articles/How-collections-and-sparse-collections-work/ta-p/810837

gertjana · Answer

you might also want to set/clear backup mode on your vaultstores. monitor sql closely, as that takes a massive hit. be sure to run the sqlmaintenance on the vaultstored db's. it might also be wise to temporarily disable the expiry schedule, to allow ev to catch up with the deletions. I can imagine that setting 'forever' to 3 years cause millions of items to be marked as expired. that is not going to happen overnight i'm afraid.

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