Arctera Insight Information Governance User's Guide
- Section I. Introduction
- Section II. Information Governance Workspace
- Navigating the Workspace tab
- Analyzing data using the Workspace views
- Viewing access information for files and folders
- Viewing user activity on files or folders
- About visualizing collaboration on a share
- Viewing access information for users and user groups
- Section III. Information Governance reports
- Using Information Governance reports
- About Information Governance security reports
- Activity Details report
- Permissions reports
- Inactive Users
- Path Permissions
- Permissions Search report
- Creating a Permissions Query Template
- Permissions Query Template actions
- Entitlement Review
- User/Group Permissions
- Group Change Impact Analysis
- Ownership Reports
- About Information Governance storage reports
- About Information Governance custom reports
- Managing reports
- Viewing reports
- Using Information Governance reports
- Section IV. Remediation
- Configuring remediation workflows
- Managing workflow templates
- Creating a workflow using a template
- Managing workflows
- Using the Self-Service Portal
- About the Self-Service Portal
- Managing data
- About managing data using Arctera Enterprise Vault and custom scripts
- Managing permissions
- Configuring remediation workflows
- Appendix A. Command Line Reference
About Retention categories
Retention categories determine how long the archived data is stored in Arctera Enterprise Vault, before it is allowed to be deleted from the storage device. You can categorize the stored data into various groups by assigning them a retention category. This categorization makes it easier to retrieve archived items because it is possible to search by category.
You can assign a retention category to the archived data based on parameters such as business value and sensitivity etc. For example, typically user generated personal data has less business value than the data that is owned by the Sales department. You might want to store personal data for six months and the Sales data for five years. In such a scenario you can define two retention categories for each of these two types of data. For each retention category, you can define a retention policy, to indicate the minimum storage period for the data belonging to that retention category.
From the Information Governance Management Console, you can choose only those retention categories which are defined in the Arctera Enterprise Vault. To define a new retention category, you must have access to Arctera Enterprise Vault Administration Console. Information Governance automatically fetches the retention categories from the Arctera Enterprise Vault server at a scheduled interval and displays them as available options in the Management console. The default interval for fetching retention categories is one hour.
To know more about retention categories and how to define them, see the Arctera Enterprise Vault Administrator's Guide.