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Introduction to Immutable Storage in Acronis
Immutable storage in Acronis provides a secure way to store backups by preventing any modifications, deletions, or tampering during a specified period. This feature protects data from unauthorized changes and ransomware, ensuring cloud backups remain intact. Users can access and recover these backups within the retention period, but they cannot alter or delete them. It’s important to note that deleted backups in immutable storage still count toward your backup storage quota. After the retention period, the data is permanently deleted, maintaining data integrity while meeting compliance Prerequisites & System Requirements. This article will guide you through enabling and disabling immutable storage in Acronis, as well as configuring the available modes: Governance mode and Compliance mode.
Modes of Immutable Storage
- Governance Mode ensures that backup data cannot be tampered with or deleted by malicious actors. It keeps deleted backups in immutable storage for the set retention period, protecting data integrity for disaster recovery. In this mode, you can disable or re-enable immutable storage, adjust the retention period, or switch to Compliance mode.
- Compliance mode provides the same protections as Governance mode, but with stricter data retention Prerequisites & System Requirements for regulatory compliance. Once enabled, immutable storage cannot be disabled, and the retention period cannot be changed. This mode is irreversible.
Configuring Immutable storage
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