Delete Lock
- Note: This feature will have a significant impact on the storage behavior for locked DS-Clients.
The "Delete Lock" feature allows the DS-System administrator to override data deletion processes at the Customer Account level (for all the customer's DS-Clients) or at the DS-Client level. Once a "Delete Lock" is applied, any request to delete data from a locked DS-Client's online storage will fail as follows:
If a BLM Archiver is available, any data that would be deleted is moved to BLM;
If a BLM Archiver is not available:
- Any on-demand delete request (including delete from a Retention process) will fail and an error will be reported.
- Recycle Generations deletion will not occur. For example, if a backup item is configured for 30 generations, and there are 30 generations online, with the delete lock, the next backup will not recycle (overwrite) the oldest generation. Instead, 31 generations will be kept online (overriding the DS-Client's backup setting). This will continue as long as the Delete Lock is enabled on this DS-Client.
1. In the Customers Tree, right-click on a customer account or DS-Client and select "Activate Delete Lock" or "Deactivate Delete Lock".
2. The "Activate / Deactivate Delete Lock" screen appears.
- F1 Help: See "Storage Volumes".
- You must enter some descriptive text in the "Comment" field. This comment will be appended for historical purposes in the DS-System database.
3. Click "Lock" or "Unlock" to activate or deactivate the Delete Lock.
4. In the Customers Tree, the Delete Lock icon appears / disappears from the affected customer / DS-Client(s).
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