convert log file with unix timestamp
awk -F"[][]" '{cmd="date -d@" $2;cmd |getline $2; close(cmd)}1' infile
" Thu Oct 19 03:42:35 STD 2017 Auto-save of retention data completed successfully.",
" Thu Oct 19 04:42:35 STD 2017 Auto-save of retention data completed successfully.",
" Thu Oct 19 05:42:35 STD 2017 Auto-save of retention data completed successfully.",
" Thu Oct 19 06:42:35 STD 2017 Auto-save of retention data completed successfully.",
" Thu Oct 19 07:42:35 STD 2017 Auto-save of retention data completed successfully."