You aren't required to inventory files before you start file discovery. ZIP file attached to an email and the complete set of document metadata. Deeper level files are only extracted after you start Discovery. ZIP that contains an email with an attached Word document, inventory only extracts data up to the email. Inventory then only extracts data from first-level documents. Inventory reads all levels of the data source, including any container files, to the lowest level.

This workflow assumes that you’re applying some method of de-NIST and deduplication. The following graphic depicts how inventory fits into the basic workflow you'd use to reduce the file size of a data set through processing. This feature is continually being improved to be smarter about when we add workers and how many we add.

Once the work is done, they will automatically scale back down. Sustained activity is automatically detected by the system, and Relativity will add workers to handle this work. Note: Your environment has been enabled to dynamically scale your Invariant worker servers dependent on load. Doing this gives you a less-cluttered data set when you begin to discover your files. With inventory you can exclude certain file types, file locations, file sizes, NIST files, date ranges, and sender domains. Use Inventory to narrow down your files before discovering them by eliminating irrelevant raw data from the discovery process through a variety of preliminary filters.

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