d.ecs storage manager automatically extends the retention period for documents on the secondary storage whose retention period is about to expire soon. This is only done for documents not marked as deleted. The Retention process can be time-controlled. The runtime can also be defined. For security reasons, the process must run at least 8 hours per week.

Maximum number of jobs: Maximum number of documents to be processed (maximum number of retention jobs in the d.ecs storage manager job table).

Extend retention by x months: Number of months by which the retention is to be extended.

Start time for the retention process: This defines the day of the week and the time when the inventory procedure is to be started. Furthermore, you can define the maximum runtime of the process.

Since the retention process reads and modifies a large amount of data from the database, it should be started at times of low utilization of the d.3/ecspand system (e.g. over the weekend).