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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2023
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Jagannathdas Rath, Bangalore, IN;
Srisailendra Yallapragada, Cupertino, CA (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A flexible retention lock system defines, as attributes, an automatic retention lock (ARL) period specifying an amount of time to lock the file, and a cooling (COP) period specifying an amount of time within the first ARL after which the file will be locked if no modifications are made to the file during the first COP. These attributes are assigned an ARL label ID. These attributes are then attached to the file using the ARL label ID and are stored with the file metadata upon creation of the file, with the ARL label stored in a label database for convenient lookup. The backup application attaches the ID to a protection policy during creation of the protection policy, and sends the ID during a backup session to automatically set a lock on the files, where the lock conforms to the ARL period and COP period.
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