Data Aging process performs the following two processes:
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Aging - marks the jobs as aged that have exceeded retention.
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Pruning - physically deletes eligible jobs from the disk or cloud storage when all jobs on it have been marked as aged.
The Data Aging job is by default scheduled to run every day at 12:00 pm.
When the data aging jobs is run, the data aging process compares the current retention settings of the storage policy copy to jobs on the storage. Any jobs that are eligible to be aged are marked as aged. The data that has aged can be pruned depending on the jobs that are on the storage.
You can also perform a data aging operation manually based on demand.