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Beginning with Avamar 19.8, Retention Lock Compliance (RLC) is supported in:
Note: Avamar 19.4.0.124 also supports RLC with HF335584.
The following table provides details about RLC support in Avamar.
Table 1. Avamar support
Avamar mode | Data Domain mode | Supported |
Standard | Standard | Yes |
Immutable | Compliance | Yes |
Standard | Governance | No |
Standard | Compliance | No |
Immutable | Standard | No |
Immutable | Governance | No |
To enable immutability on Avamar Server:
admin@avamar:~/>:avmaint config immutablebackups=true --ava --confirmthisisnotreversible
admin@avamar:~/>:avmaint nodelist | grep immutablebackups
Ensure that the command output is as follows:
immutablebackups="true”
To enable RLC from PowerProtect DD:
(SYSADMIN USER) # elicense show all
(SYSADMIN USER) # elicense update
(SYSADMIN USER) # elicense show all
(SYSADMIN USER) # user add [username] role security
(SECURITY USER): # authorization policy set security-officer enabled
(SYSADMIN USER) # system retention-lock compliance configure
(SYSADMIN USER) # system retention-lock compliance enable
(SYSADMIN USER) # mtree retention-lock enable mode compliance mtree [mtree]
admin@avamar:~/>:mccli checkpoint create --override_maintenance_scheduler=true