A Network Appliance SnapLock (NetApp SnapLock) store stores large amounts of unchanging data such as email archives. NetApp SnapLock is a licensed software that provides storage level retention capability through the creation of Write Once Read Many (WORM) volumes on Network Appliance storage systems. These WORM volumes enable users to prevent altering or deleting content until a specified retention date. NetApp SnapLock does not have advanced retention management features such as retention hold, event based retention, or privileged delete, which is available on an EMC Centera store. You can define a retention date or, with Content Server 5.3 SP6 or later, a retention period for the content in a NetApp SnapLock store. You can also enable content compression for a SnapLock store.

There are two types of NetApp SnapLock stores:

Refer to the SnapLock documentation provided by Network Appliance for more information about the two types of stores.

SnapLock requires:

For information about creating, viewing, or modifying NetApp SnapLock stores, refer to Creating, viewing, or modifying NetApp SnapLock stores.