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Once you select the data to destroy, the wizard helps you choose the strategy that should be followed when
choosing which versions of each file should be destroyed.
There is only one page of destroy options. Once you have finished changing the destroy options, click Next
to get to the action confirmation page.
Version control:
This group of options controls whether you destroy all versions of the data you have selected, or whether
only certain historical versions are destroyed.
Tip: The options are set by default to only destroy historical versions of files that do not match your global
data retention policy as set in your versioning settings.
If you completed a destroy process but did not see
your disk usage decrease, then please double-check that you chose to destroy all versions of your data (if
that is what you are trying to do).
There are three different methods to choose from to control which versions to destroy:
· Destroy all data: All versions of each selected file will be destroyed.
· Destroy versions with data older than (date and time): Use this option to destroy all historical
versions that are older than a particular point in time. This is useful if you recently changed your versioning settings to keep fewer days of
historical versions, and now you want to immediately
destroy any versions that do not match your new retention policy. There are three checkboxes that
affect the behavior of this method:
· Allow current version to be included in search for versions to destroy:
If this is checked, then it will be possible to destroy all versions of a file if that file was uploaded before the indicated date and time. If you are only trying to trim unwanted historical versions, do not check this option.
If this is checked, then it will be possible to destroy all versions of a file if that file was uploaded before the indicated date and time. If you are only trying to trim unwanted historical versions, do not check this option.
· However, keep at least ___ version(s), including the current version:
If this is checked, then even if a historical version is older than the indicated date and time, it will not be destroyed if it would cause the file to have fewer than N versions. For example, if you set this to 3, then it would never destroy the current version and would never destroy the two most recent historical versions.
If this is checked, then even if a historical version is older than the indicated date and time, it will not be destroyed if it would cause the file to have fewer than N versions. For example, if you set this to 3, then it would never destroy the current version and would never destroy the two most recent historical versions.
· But allow no more than ___ version(s), including the current version:
If this is checked, then it will make sure that each file has no more than N versions. For example, if you set this to 3, then it would destroy any versions older than the 2nd historical version, even if those versions were more recent than the date and time indicated above.
TIP: It does not make sense to set this to a value that is less than the value of the previous setting.
TIP: If you set this to 0, then all versions of each file will be destroyed, including the current version.
If this is checked, then it will make sure that each file has no more than N versions. For example, if you set this to 3, then it would destroy any versions older than the 2nd historical version, even if those versions were more recent than the date and time indicated above.
TIP: It does not make sense to set this to a value that is less than the value of the previous setting.
TIP: If you set this to 0, then all versions of each file will be destroyed, including the current version.
· Destroy versions that are at least ___ step(s) away from the current version: This is useful if you
want to destroy historical versions not based on a date and time, but rather based solely on how
many historical versions there are for a file. For example, if you set this to 3, then it will make sure
that each file has no more than the current version and the two most recent historical versions
(any other older historical versions would be destroyed).
In addition to choosing how to select which version to destroy, the Consider only deleted files option makes
it easy to destroy only deleted files. Deleted files are files that were backed up and later were deleted from
your computer, and are still in the backup according to your versioning settings. If this option is checked,
then any files that were selected on the data selection page
that are not "deleted" will not be destroyed.