Enabling and disabling immutable storage

Company administrators can enable or disable immutable storage, or change its retention period.

Configuring the settings for immutable storage requires that two-factor authentication is enabled for the tenant to which the administrator account belongs. If no custom settings are applied for a child tenant, then the settings from the parent tenant are used also in the child tenant.

To enable immutable storage

1. Log in to the Cyber Protection service console as a company administrator.
2. In the navigation menu, click Settings > System settings.
3. Scroll the list of default backups options, and then click Immutable storage.
4. Enable the Immutable storage switch.

5. Specify the desired retention period within the range of 1 to 999 days.

   The default retention period is 14 days. A longer retention period may result in increased storage usage.

6. To make your existing backups support immutable storage, update them by running their protection plans.

   After the backup operation completes, when you delete a backup, it will still be accessible during the retention period of immutable storage, instead of being erased permanently.

   If you delete a backup without updating it after immutable storage is enabled, the backup will be erased permanently.

As a result, you will be able to recover data from deleted backups that are within the specified retention period.

To disable immutable storage

1. Log in to the Cyber Protection service console as a company administrator.
2. In the navigation menu, click Settings > System settings.
3. Scroll the list of default backups options, and then click Immutable storage.
4. Disable the Immutable storage switch.