Journal Items not expiring
I've just been checking some old Journal Partitions which had been set to expire items after 1 year, however I can see thousands of items that are still present and have passed the year mark by a few months.
Is there a way of checking why these havent expired yet and better yet forcing them to expire as they are swallowing up a lot of disk space.
Thanks
HI Paul,
Certainly your figures are going to be skewed, but you could use EV Reporting to give you an idea of how much space is stored in each, along with the single instance storage reduction.
See : http://www.symantec.com/docs/DOC5455
You could aggregate them, but be careful of aggregating too much data together. The way you have it sounds potentially better performance for archiving and also for the backup than having it all on one disk. Depends how many disks and how many partitions we are talking about, and the size you are considering aggregating to. I try to stay to 500GB per disk so restore times stay reasonable.
moving a partition : http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH35742
Absolutely do NOT expire data during backups of the closed partitions (if you can help it). The database will be changing significantly during this period and data will be stripped from the partition, so apart from contention issues, you will not be sure what you have in a restore. Granted this is less important for the ingestion of new data, but still would not be best practice. Expiry does tend to slow down archiving so for journaling you may want to run it at periods of lower journaling rates - i.e outside the hours of 8am-6pm, or if that isnt possible, 10-3 (the busiest period in most single country organisations)
Regards,
Jeff
