Shortcut creation options

The Enterprise Vault archiving task creates shortcuts during normal archiving runs. The task creates the shortcuts according to rules that you define in the archiving policy. If you want to create shortcuts at any other time you must use Run Now to run the archiving task.

The shortcut creation options are as follows:

Note the following:

Table: Effect of Remove Safety Copies setting on shortcut creation

Remove Safety Copies Setting

Shortcut Creation Setting

None. Archive and delete file

Create shortcut immediately

Create shortcut later

Immediately after archive

Delete original file

Create shortcut immediately

Create shortcut later

Never

Leave the original file

Leave the original file

Leave the original file

After backup

Delete original file after backup

Create shortcut after backup

Create shortcut later, after backup

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