Overview
As a Cloud or inSync Administrator, you can delete older snapshots for any user to reduce storage utilization. The snapshots are deleted/compacted as per the retention policy. This article describes the Druva Compaction process that occurs after snapshots have been marked for deletion. Applicable for snapshots from EndPoints, Exchange Online, OneDrive, Gmail and Google Drive.
Druva Compaction Process:
By default the compaction is disabled for next 7 days. Below is the compaction process for snapshot deletion :
Druva Storage compaction has 2 back-end processes that run daily : Deletion and Compaction.
Deletion will handle the task of deleting the snapshots which expires as per the retention period, to know more about retention policy please click here
When an inSync Admin manually deletes snapshots, the action is immediate, and the snapshots are promptly removed from the list. The deleted data becomes inaccessible both in the Admin Console and to users. However, it remains in the storage as residual data until the next deletion cycle is executed.
The deletion scan process runs daily as per UTC Time Zone.
The deletion process to compact data is slow during the weekdays as it has lesser priority on the resources it needs. But on the week-ends, larger amounts of resources are allocated for the compaction.
As a Cloud Admin, you will observe a gradual reduction in used storage space over time, as the compaction process runs in the background to eliminate the deleted data
In a normal scenario, the estimated ETA for a compaction job to complete is 7 to 10 days.
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