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138 Migration, release, recall, and deletion
Windows specific
You can schedule a task for this purpose.
The progress of the deletion process is logged to the FSE event log, and potential errors are logged to the
FSE error log. The list of files that were deleted is written to the HSM file system log file on the FSE client
that hosts the FSE partition. The HSM file system log file is called hsmfs_PartitionName.log. The
locations of this file is platform-dependent.
Linux specific
HSM file system log file is located in the directory /var/opt/fse/log.
Windows specific
HSM file system log file is located in the directory %InstallPath%\var\log.
The value of %InstallPath% depends on the choice made in the FSE installation process. It defaults to
C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\FSE.
Deletion policy parameters
You can set up a deletion policy for an FSE partition by specifying appropriate parameters in the FSE
partition configuration file. The deletion policy can be set up while configuring a new FSE partition or
when modifying an existing FSE partition configuration.
You define a deletion policy with pairs of FileExpiration and Path variables. Each specified
FileExpiration variable requires a corresponding Path variable.
File expiration time (FileExpiration)
Directory paths (Path)
Notes
When specifying the FileExpiration and Path variables for the deletion policy of an FSE partition,
keep in mind the following rules:
• Directory paths are relative to the mount point of the HSM file system (the directory where the HSM file
system is mounted).
For example, to specify only the root directory of a particular HSM file system, set Path to / (for HSM
file systems located on Linux systems) or \ (for HSM file systems located on Windows systems).
• Directory paths that contain spaces must be enclosed within double quotes ("").
• A particular directory path cannot be specified more than once.
Definition A period of time that determines which files in the specified Path directories are to be
considered for deletion. The following units are available for specifying the time period:
D (days), M (months), and Y (years).
Impact This variable determines the files to consider for deletion by checking the period of time
since each file on the HSM file system was last modified; files modified more than
FileExpiration time ago are added to the file list.
If the UNLIMITED value is specified for the FileExpiration variable, the files will
never be considered for deletion by the FSE deletion jobs. However, you can still delete
such files manually using operating system utilities.
Definition A set of directory paths on the HSM file system on whose files the corresponding file
expiration period FileExpiration is considered.
Impact During a deletion job, all files located in the directories specified by the Path variable
(including all subdirectories), and for which the corresponding expiration period has
passed, are deleted from the HSM file system.