Veritas Enterprise Vault™ Guide for Notes Users

About the retention times for archived items

When Enterprise Vault archives an item, it automatically assigns a retention category to the item. The retention category specifies how long to keep the item. Your administrator can set up different retention categories for different types of data, such as Business or Legal. As Enterprise Vault monitors the vaults, it can then delete any item whose retention time has elapsed.

How Enterprise Vault calculates the start of the retention time for an item normally depends on the type of item. The start of the retention time is typically the received date for mail messages and the last-modified date for documents. However, your administrator may have set up Enterprise Vault so that the start of the retention time is the date on which the item was archived.

The retention category can be helpful when you use the Enterprise Vault Search feature because you can specify the appropriate category on the search form.