Managing legal hold

If you need to preserve your protected data for legal reasons, R‑Cloud allows you to enable legal hold for the entire subscription, a specific protection set, or selected entities.

For all entities with legal hold enabled, the following applies:

• Restore points of the entities do not expire, even if the retention period that is set in the R‑Cloud policy is exceeded. You can use these restore points to restore data.

• Expiring backups manually is disabled for the entities.

• No retention maintenance tasks are performed for the entities.

After you disable legal hold, the restore points whose retention period was exceeded are expired and removed from R‑Cloud during the next retention maintenance task.

Prerequisite

You must have the Administrator role assigned at the subscription or protection set level.

Depending on what you want to do, see one of the following topics:

• Managing legal hold for a subscription or a protection set

• Managing legal hold for entities

Managing legal hold for a subscription or a protection set

You can enable or disable legal hold for a subscription or a protection set.

Procedure

Depending on what you want to do, follow the required instructions:

I want to...	Instructions
Enable legal hold for a subscription or a protection set.	In the Legal Hold dialog box, enable the Enable legal hold switch, and then click Save. Click Enable to confirm that you want to enable legal hold.
Disable legal hold for a subscription or a protection set.	In the Legal Hold dialog box, disable the Enable legal hold switch, and then click Save. Click Disable to confirm that you want to disable legal hold.

Managing legal hold for entities

You can enable or disable legal hold for one or more entities.

Considerations

• An entity for which legal hold is enabled is represented by the icon in the list of entities.

• For SQL Server and Db2 applications: Enabling legal hold for the application or the instance on which the application is hosted automatically enables it for both.

Depending on the type of entity for which you want to enable legal hold, access one of the following panels:

• Accessing the SaaS panel

  To access the SaaS panel, in the navigation pane, click  SaaS.

• Accessing the Applications panel

  To access the Applications panel, in the navigation pane, click  Applications.

• Accessing the Instances panel

  To access the Instances panel, in the navigation pane, click  Instances.

• Accessing the Buckets panel

  To access the Buckets panel, in the navigation pane, click  Buckets.

Procedure

Depending on what you want to do, follow the required instructions:

I want to...	Instructions
Enable legal hold for one or more entities.	In the relevant panel, select the entities for which you want to enable legal hold. Click the icon, and then click  Legal Hold. Enable the Enable legal hold switch, and then click Save. Click Enable to confirm that you want to enable legal hold for the selected entities.
Disable legal hold for one or more entities.	In the relevant panel, select the entities for which you want to disable legal hold. Click the icon, and then click  Legal Hold. Disable the Enable legal hold switch, and then click Save. Enter the word Disable into the field, and then click Disable to confirm that you want to disable legal hold for the selected entities.