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Retain WORM files during litigation using Legal Hold

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Beginning with ONTAP 9.3, you can retain Compliance-mode WORM files for the duration of a litigation by using the Legal Hold feature.

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A file under a Legal Hold behaves like a WORM file with an indefinite retention period. It is your responsibility to specify when the Legal Hold period ends.

The number of files you can place under a Legal Hold depends on the space available on the volume.

Steps

  1. Start a Legal Hold:

    snaplock legal-hold begin -litigation-name litigation_name -volume volume_name -path path_name

    The following command starts a Legal Hold for all the files in vol1:

    cluster1::>snaplock legal-hold begin -litigation-name litigation1 -volume vol1 -path /

  2. End a Legal Hold:

    snaplock legal-hold end -litigation-name litigation_name -volume volume_name -path path_name

    The following command ends a Legal Hold for all the files in vol1:

    cluster1::>snaplock legal-hold end -litigation-name litigation1 -volume vol1 -path /