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Object retention settings

Every object, including objects assigned to retention classes, has a specific retention setting that specifies when (or whether) the retention period for the object ends. HCP represents the retention setting in numeric and text formats, as shown in the table below.

Numeric value Text value Meaning
0

Deletion Allowed

The object can be deleted at any time.

-1

Deletion Prohibited

The object cannot be deleted, except by a privileged delete, and the retention setting cannot be changed.

-2

Initial Unspecified

The object does not yet have a retention setting. An object that has this value cannot be deleted, except by a privileged delete. You can change this retention setting to any other setting.

An integer number of seconds since January 1, 1970, at 00:00:00 UTC

A datetime value in the format described in Specifying a date and time

The object cannot be deleted, except by a privileged delete, until the specified date and time.

The format used for retention settings depends on whether you’re specifying or retrieving a setting and on the protocol you’re using. For information on:

The values that are returned when you use the HTTP protocol to retrieve information about an object, see Viewing retention settings.

The values that are displayed you view the retention.txt metafile through the WebDAV, CIFS, or NFS protocol, see Viewing retention settings.

The formats that you can use to set a retention value, see Specifying retention settings.

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