"Dry run" feature

In a future plugin versions we plan to offer an actual dry run feature.
Although it will not completely replace the staging environment experiments, it will work like this: "show me what would happen if I ran the archiving job with the current settings - but do not actually archive anything!".
Dry runs will significantly reduce the efforts to find the best archiving settings for your content.

http://www.midori-global.com/products/confluence-archiving-plugin/documentation/enterprise-tips-by-linkedin#tip-2