The Enterprise Vault for Domino Journaling Task does not appear to be honoring the safety copy setting 'Remove Original Items' when it is deselected.

Problem

The Enterprise Vault for Domino Journaling Task does not appear to be honoring the safety copy setting 'Remove Original Items' when it is de-selected on the properties of the associated vault store.

As a result, the original items will be deleted from MailJrn.nsf file when the expected behavior is that the journal task leaves the original item in the source and never delete it.

Figure 1 below shows the setting:

Figure 1:

Error Message

There are no errors related to this issue.   However, a Dtrace of the EVLotusDominoJournal task can verify that the issue is occurring due to the journal task.  

If the Journal task is deleting the items from the source, a line similar to the one below will appear in the dtrace log for each item  being deleted: 
28014 13:11:05.496 [9128] (EvLotusDominoJournalTask) <11984> EV-M {DominoItemProcessor.PostProcessItem} Deleted note NoteId-4ddfe from DOM01/EVDOM!!journal\mailjrn.nsf

Cause

This behavior is as designed. The 'Safety Copies' tab on the vault store properties determines if safety copies will be kept and where they will be stored if 'Remove Original Items' is selected. The check box does not determine if the original will be deleted after archiving. The original item will be deleted whether or not 'Remove Original Items' is selected. 

Solution

This behavior is as designed. Use as is. 

When 'Remove Original Items' is deselected, the original item will be deleted immediately after it is archived.

When 'Remove Original Items' is selected, the original item will be deleted according to the 'Default Behavior' setting after the item has successfully been backed up or replicated on the partition.