In-Place Preservation for Data Vault Through Exterro Fusion
In-Place Preservation for Data Vault Through Exterro Fusion
Data preservation is a crucial step in the e-discovery process. Preservation refers to securing potentially relevant data as quickly as possible to prevent it from being altered or deleted. In-place preservation is the preferred type of preservation where data is preserved at its current location. You apply a legal hold to preserve data. A legal hold is like a virtual lock on data. When you apply a legal hold, the data continues to be retained even if the retention policy indicates that the data has expired. When you remove a legal hold, data is subject to the scheduled purge and retention policies.
Exterro Fusion is an e-discovery solution that includes the workflow for in-place preservation. Previously, to find and preserve relevant data, a legal team would need to use two applications. The team would use Data Archive to search through structured data archived to the Data Vault. The team would use Exterro Fusion to search through unstructured data on other sources. To use Data Archive, the legal team might need the help of a technical team. The need to use different applications and the dependency on another team to search and preserve data could present a delay in preserving data. To bridge the gap between the point of a legal hold notification and the point of data preservation, integrate Data Archive with Exterro Fusion. With the integration, a non-technical user can search and manage data preservation across structured and unstructured data from a single application, Exterro Fusion.
Legal Hold Specifications
To preserve data, you apply a legal hold at an entity or an application level. Within an entity, you can specify a date range to select a set of records to preserve. The date range applies across all date fields in the driving table of the entity. For example, if you have four date columns in the driving table of the entity, the legal hold applies to records with a date that falls within the date range, in at least one of the four columns.
When you apply a legal hold to an application, you apply it at the target connection or the archive folder level. An application-level legal hold applies to all entities and tables in the application. You can apply different legal holds at a time to an application or entity.
For more information, see the Exterro Fusion documentation.