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pdunnigan1's avatar
pdunnigan1
Level 4
7 years ago

Mailbox Archives for Ex Employees

We have EV 12.0.3 for Exchange 2010. We have Ex Employees archives that are no longer needed and they are showing in the console mailbox archives with just a SID for these accounts. Is there a way to mass delete these archives in EV? 

 

thanks

Pat

  • VirgilDobos's avatar
    VirgilDobos
    7 years ago

    There is a way to delete bulk archives which was discussed here on the forum. 

    However, notice that deleting the items from SQL will only remove the archive entry from EV console, but won't remove the actual data from the vault store partitions and indexes. Hence, it will not free up space on storage.

    Hence, the recommended option is to delete the archives from the EV console.

    https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.TECH49804

     

  • pdunnigan1's avatar
    pdunnigan1
    Level 4
    7 years ago

    Is there a script I could run in SQL that would tell me how much space is taken up by these accounts?

     

    Pat

    • VirgilDobos's avatar
      VirgilDobos
      Moderator
      7 years ago

      There is a way to delete bulk archives which was discussed here on the forum. 

      However, notice that deleting the items from SQL will only remove the archive entry from EV console, but won't remove the actual data from the vault store partitions and indexes. Hence, it will not free up space on storage.

      Hence, the recommended option is to delete the archives from the EV console.

      https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.TECH49804

       

      • garry_burns2's avatar
        garry_burns2
        Level 1
        5 years ago

        The technote doesn't describe deleting anything from SQL but adding "ArchiveStatus = 4".

        This seems to trigger EV's normal clean-up process to correctly delete the items and archive.