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LegalHold

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LegalHold - AWS Backup

A legal hold is an administrative tool that helps prevent backups from being deleted while under a hold. While the hold is in place, backups under a hold cannot be deleted and lifecycle policies that would alter the backup status (such as transition to cold storage) are delayed until the legal hold is removed. A backup can have more than one legal hold. Legal holds are applied to one or more backups (also known as recovery points). These backups can be filtered by resource types and by resource IDs.

Contents

CancellationDate

The time when the legal hold was cancelled.

Type: Timestamp

Required: No

CreationDate

The time when the legal hold was created.

Type: Timestamp

Required: No

Description

The description of a legal hold.

Type: String

Required: No

LegalHoldArn

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the legal hold; for example, arn:aws:backup:us-east-1:123456789012:recovery-point:1EB3B5E7-9EB0-435A-A80B-108B488B0D45.

Type: String

Required: No

LegalHoldId

The ID of the legal hold.

Type: String

Required: No

Status

The status of the legal hold.

Type: String

Valid Values: CREATING | ACTIVE | CANCELING | CANCELED

Required: No

Title

The title of a legal hold.

Type: String

Required: No

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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