Managing space on archive media

As your appliance runs archive jobs and uses space on your media, you must determine a media management strategy that works best for you. It will likely include a combination of storing the media offsite, acquiring new media, and rotating and reusing existing media by deleting sets that have exceeded their retention periods using the purge and overwrite options.

This section explains how the archiving feature uses available space on archive media, discusses retention, explains the purge and overwrite options, and discusses options for creating space on archive media. For management considerations specific to your selected archive media, see the applicable chapters.

See the following topics for details: