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Enterprise Vault allows users to associate EV retention policies to archived objects, files, email, or other data. The ECS Streamer driver provides Enterprise Vault with the capability of associating these EV retention policies with the objects stored on the ECS. The ECS object store will enforce the objects retention and will not allow objects to be deleted until its retention has expired.
Objects archived to ECS cannot have their retention shortened or extended by Enterprise Vault.
Enterprise Vault will not any apply retention periods to objects stored in a Dell ECS Streamer Partition that is configured as NON-WORM.
The ECS Streamer driver does not support ECS retention policies.