Will the EX DISPOSE process look at RETENTION ?

Hi M314,

no! Well, just try it!

You can dispose the Container (it's basically an EMX-file) from EmailXtender. There is no lookup... and might be necessary in administrative tasks as well. This folder can then be found on the top hirarchy within Emailxtender, kind of a "lost and found".

But, the information is not getting deleted on the file-level, so your DX and Centera prevent a deletion. You can try this on the file-level and just try it from there. DX will not allow this (if properly configured).

Just one thing: When your whole config just blows away (disaster), having the EMX-files, you can just bring them back into any other EX-server (given you don't have encryption or entered the encryption key). Even the SQL databases get created.

So, in EX, I explain the containers rather a view to work with... but don't get deleted on the WORM storage.

Hope, that helps,
Jochen.

Thanks for the information.
I did not want to "just try it" .

From my viewpoint it appears that EX offers "Retention" but really does not implment it "very well" or maybe does not implement it as I expect it should.

If an item is still within the Retention period then I think EX should speak to you in a nice way to say "too early to perform this function".

If I understand what you said, it sounds like DX and/or Centera are actually controlling the Retention and not EX at all.

In any case, thanks for your answer.

Hi M314,

well, I agree with the "should" of you very much. But honestly we are talking "software" here... which is no excuse (but hey, if you couldn't delete a volume, just format the whole server)! The real retention is on the hardware, that's important; the retention time is obviously set on EX. If you have a software based retention (as part of EX), the time stamp of a Centera pool will not take effect.

Btw.: I also know archiving software from other vendors, and it's pretty much the same. And manipulating the systems/archive -given malicious intentions- is working (SQL is also a piece of software only).

Keep well, Jochen.
Jochen.

Thanks.