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Veritas Enterprise Vault™ Installing and Configuring

Last Published: 2017-07-28

Product(s): Enterprise Vault (12.1)

About retention plans

With a retention plan, you can associate a retention category with a number of other settings, such as a classification policy and the criteria for discarding expired items, and apply them all to one or more archives. If you choose to set a classification policy with a retention plan then, for the archives to which you assign the retention plan, the classification policy determines the following:

Whether to classify items at the same time that Enterprise Vault indexes and archives them. After Enterprise Vault has applied the classification tags, users of applications like Compliance Accelerator and Discovery Accelerator can use them to filter items when they conduct searches and reviews.
Whether to classify items when users manually delete them or Enterprise Vault automatically expires them.

For more information on the classification feature, see the Classification guide.

Applying a retention plan to an archive gives you greater control over the retention periods of the items in the archive. In particular, a retention plan lets you dispose of already-archived items by giving them a different retention period than the one that Enterprise Vault first gave them when it archived the items. For example, you can configure a retention plan so Enterprise Vault expires the affected items according to the retention category that you have associated with the retention plan, and not the retention categories with which Enterprise Vault originally stamped them.