Deleting moved archives

When Enterprise Vault has finished moving an archive, its status in the Move Archive Status page is Completed. You can remove the completed archives from this page, and a prompt asks if you also want to delete the source archive.

Note:

You cannot delete an archive when Compliance Accelerator or Discovery Accelerator has registered an interest in it, or when Discovery Accelerator has placed items in the archive on legal hold.

See How Compliance Accelerator and Discovery Accelerator affect Move Archive.

At the end of a move operation, an archive's status can be Completed with errors. This happens when Move Archive records errors during the move, but does not consider the errors to be serious enough to terminate the move operation. Before you remove archives that have completed with errors, you should check the Move Archive log files for the archive to ensure the errors are not serious or unexpected. For example, you might expect some items to be absent following the failure of a storage device.

For more information on move operations that have completed with errors, see the following technical note on the Enterprise Vault Support Web site:

http://entsupport.symantec.com/docs/338002

To remove completed archives

  1. Select the completed archives you want to remove from the Move Archive Status page.

  2. Click the Delete button on the toolbar.

  3. At the prompt Do you want to delete the source archives as well?, click Yes if you want to delete the associated source archives, or No if you do not.

If you choose not to delete source archives when you remove them from the Move Archive Status page, you can remove them subsequently from the Administration Console.