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Protection against accidental volume deletion

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Default volume delete behavior aids the recovery of accidentally deleted FlexVol volumes.

A volume delete request against a volume that has type RW or DP (as seen in volume show command output) causes that volume to be moved to a partially deleted state. By default, it is retained in a recovery queue for at least 12 hours before being fully deleted.

For more information, see the KnowledgeBase article How to use the Volume Recovery Queue.