Veritas Alta™ SaaS Protection Administrator's Guide
- Section I. Introduction to Veritas Alta™ SaaS Protection
- Section II. Administration portal
- Section III. Manage users and roles
- Section IV. Manage searches/eDiscovery/cases
- Section V. Configure policies
- Section VI. Perform restores
- About restore
- Prerequisites for restore
- Restore dashboard
- Restore Exchange Online mailboxes
- Restore SharePoint Online Sites and data
- Restore SharePoint/OneDrive/Teams Sites and data
- Restore Teams chats and Teams Channel conversations
- Restore Audit logs
- Restore Box data
- Restore Google Drive data
- Restore Gmail data
- Restore Salesforce data and Metadata
- Restore Entra ID objects
- Restore Slack data
- Restore data to File server
- Restore options
- Section VII. Perform data share
- Section VIII. Perform data downloading
- Section IX. Add and configure connectors
- About connectors
- About connectors
- Overview of connectors
- Configuring the capture scope
- Configuring credentials
- Apps Consent Grant Utility
- Exchange Online connector
- Adding Exchange Online connectors
- Configuring the capture scope for Exchange connectors
- Configuring the capture scope for Exchange connectors
- SharePoint Online connector
- Teams Sites collections connector
- OneDrive connector
- Teams chat connector
- Audit log connector
- Google Drive connector
- Gmail connector
- Salesforce connector
- Entra ID (Azure AD) connector
- Box connector
- Slack connector
- EML connector
- Managing connectors
- About connectors
- Section X. Perform backups
- Section XI. Backup limitations
- Section XII. Events
- Section XIII. Manage Stors (Storages)
- Section XIV. Manage Scopes
- Section XV. Manage auditing
- Section XVI. Known Issues
About the Deletion policy
Deletion policies are designed to permanently and irreversibly delete specific content from the storage system. These policies cannot delete items that are under legal hold, within the WORM retention period, or those that have been tagged with the Prevent Deletion tag behavior.
The policies operate based on the configured policy evaluation interval within your Veritas Alta SaaS Protection environment, which is typically set to every 15 minutes by default. Before adding a policy, you must first run it in Preview mode to fully understand the scope of the data that will be deleted. It is recommended that you consult with Veritas Support before adding any policy.
The deletion process within Veritas Alta SaaS Protection occurs in two steps. Firstly, references to records are removed, followed by sending delete instructions to the underlying storage system. The periodic maintenance tasks clean up empty folders without any descendants.
Once deletion operations commence, customer data becomes inaccessible within the storage subsystem. These operations achieve instant consistency across the redundant storage architecture. All copies of deleted content undergo subsequent garbage collection. When the associated storage block is reused for other data, the physical bits are overwritten, following standard hard drive practices.