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Freeing Space on Disk

As client files expire, the space they occupy is not freed for other uses until you run expiration processing on the server.

Expiration processing deletes from the database information about any client files that are no longer valid according to the policies you have set. For example, suppose four backup versions of a file exist in server storage, and only three versions are allowed in the backup policy (the management class) for the file. Expiration processing deletes information about the oldest of the four versions of the file. The space that the file occupied in the storage pool becomes available for reuse.

You can run expiration processing by using one or both of the following methods:


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