Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection Administrator's Guide
- Introduction to Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection
- API permissions
- Administrator portal (Web UI)
- Manage users and roles
- What is a connector?
- Configure credentials
- Pre-requisites for Microsoft 365 connectors
- Protect Microsoft 365 Multi-Geo tenant
- Protect Exchange Online data
- Protect SharePoint sites and data
- Protect Teams sites
- Protect OneDrive data
- Protect Teams chats
- Protect GoogleDrive data
- Protect Gmail data
- Protect Audit logs
- Protect Salesforce data and metada
- Protect Entra ID objects
- Protect Box data
- Protect Slack data
- Protect Email/Message data
- Configure Retention policies
- Perform backups
- View and share backed-up data
- Analytics
- Perform restores using Administration portal
- Restore SharePoint/OneDrive/Teams Sites and data
- Restore Teams chat messages and Teams channel conversations
- Restore Box data
- Restore Google Drive data
- About Salesforce Data, Metadata, and CRM Content restore and Sandbox seeding
- About Entra ID (Azure AD) objects and records restore
- Restore dashboard
- Install services and utilities
- About the Apps Consent Grant Utility
- Discovery
- Configure Tagging polices
- Configure Tiering policy
- Auditing
- Manage Stors (Storages)
Add/edit Deletion policies
Deletion policies are designed to permanently and irreversibly delete specific content from the Stors. These policies cannot delete the items that are under legal hold, within the WORM retention period, or those that are tagged with the
tag behavior.The policies operate based on the configured policy evaluation interval within your Cohesity 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 Cohesity Support before adding any policy.
The deletion process within Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection occurs in two steps. Firstly, references to records are removed, followed by sending delete instructions to the underlying Stors. The periodic maintenance tasks clean up empty folders without any descendants.
Once deletion operations commence, customer data becomes inaccessible within the Stors. 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.
To ensure that you understand fully the scope of data that will be deleted, run the policy in the
mode initially.To add/edit a Deletion policy
- Access the Administration portal.
The home page of the Administration portal is displayed.
- Click Retention.
- On the left, click Deletion policies.
- Do one of the following:
To add a new policy, click New policy.
To update existing policy, click the name of the policy.
- On the Create policy page, do the following:
Enter an appropriate name for the policy.
From the Stor list, select the Stor for which the policy has to be added.
Configure the schedule to run the Deletion policy based-on one of the following criteria:
One time: Runs once as per the policy interval settings, and then its schedule changes to Never.
Continuous: Runs as per the policy interval settings.
Date range: Lets you specify a From and To date range to run the policy.
Never: If you are not ready to run the policy or want to stop the policy from running. The one time-scheduled policies is converted to Never after its runs.
Select any of the required action modes:
Preview: Lists the items, which can be deleted with this policy.
Production: Deletes the items in the scope of the policy unless it is protected by legal hold or WORM policy.
By default, the status of the policy is disabled; it is saved but cannot run. Toggle the Status option to enable the policy. As soon as the policy is enabled, it runs as per the schedule that is set in the Schedule section.
(Optional) Configure filters to include or exclude specific locations or data from having the policy applied.
See How to add a Location filter?.
See How to add a filter?.
Click Create to add a policy.
While you editing the policy, the Update option is displayed, click it to save the changes.
The policies are displayed on the Deletion policies page, under the storage (Stor) for which you have added the policy.