Verify Retention Period Expiration

[Andrew_Tankersl]

If I wantto verify that items are being deleted once they reach their expiration date, do I only need to use the StorageDelete option from DTRACE?

[Liam_Finn1]

You can go that route or you can turn on auditing on the EV servers and select deletes. This will track any deletes. Be careful, tracking deletes can make your audit database grow very fast.

One other way is to enabeling some form of auditing on your SQl server which will track deletes within all of your databases

[Chris_Harrison]

I don't recall the event id, but after every Storage Expiry run an event log is generated that provides a high level summary of what was deleted.

Ultimately though Liam is right, (EV) auditing will give you the information you need.

[Liam_Finn1 · Accepted solution]

The Event ID in question is

6604 If actual storage delete is run in normal mode

6613 If Storage delete is run in report mode

This will write to the event log of each EV server so you will have to go to each server and gather the event information

The ID is generated for each vault so if you have 26 vaults on one server then you have to gather the results from 26 events in the event log of that server

see below example of it run in report mode from my lab

Storage Expiry Report (Report Mode)
 
Vault Store Name: Store 1
Vault Store Id: 1BEEA20F813878943B075DD0980AC197B1210000evsite1.solarsystem.local
 
Number of vaults processed: 40
Number of vaults enabled for expiry: 40
Total number of expired items: 0
 
Items have expired with the following retention categories:
(none)
 
No items have expired with the following retention categories:
Public (999999 years).   Business (999999 years).   Personal (5 years).   
 
Expiry based on archived date
 
Start Time: 15.11.2007 15:32
End Time: 15.11.2007 15:32

[Andrew_Tankersl]

Thanks Liam - much appreciated

[Liam_Finn1]

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