The SnapLock
logging has several advantages.
- SnapLock
logging logs all the privileged delete operations that affect a WORM file.
- The SnapLock
log resides in the SnapLock
Compliance volume. Therefore, you cannot delete the log file until the retention period expires. You can extend the retention period of a log file, but you cannot shorten it.
- The log files are protected from tampering. SnapLock
files are not writable by any external applications.
- The SnapLock
log file contains the version number; therefore, it is possible to check the compatibility between the log files in different Data ONTAP releases.
- The SnapLock log files can be parsed by an XML parser.
