Creating and managing retention folders

After you have completed the configuration tasks, Enterprise Vault creates the folder hierarchy on the file server when the FSA archiving task runs in Normal mode. To see what folders will be created by a Retention Folder policy, you can run the task in Report mode.

The following Retention Folder information is added to the FSA report in the Enterprise Vault\Reports folder:

After a Normal mode archiving task run, the retention folder hierarchy that is defined in a Retention Folder policy should exist under the target. If a user deletes one or more retention folders, they will be recreated the next time the archiving task runs.