MOSS Archiving- Qns

Hello All,

We are presently doing MOSS Archving. I am still not clear the way it is working. Through out the testing the behaviour is inconsistent. My main concern is regarding the SharePOint policies.

 

1. Shorcuts : I assume if we set "Remove Orginal itesm from SharePoint"  @ 0 days and replace with Shortcut EV will create a shortcut right after archiving the document. Does it still remove the Original item from SharePoint in this case?

 

2. Pruning : If we set the above setting as 0 , is it still necessary to enable Pruning to remove the old versions.

 

Our requirement is to archive items older than 6 months from sharepoint and keep the shortcut of it. Now we are mass importing items to SharePOint so  initial Archiving  is 100's of Gigs ( older than 6 months ).

Thank you in advance

RG