CPC G06F 3/0647 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 12/0253 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7205 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
defining a hard age threshold setting a minimum data age for storage of data in a storage medium of a data processing system;
monitoring data deletion operations in the data processing system;
determining if a received delete operation causes an upcoming garbage collection (GC) operation to delete data older than the hard age threshold; and
skipping, if the hard age threshold is exceeded, the upcoming GC operation and alerting the user of a potential unauthorized data destruction command, otherwise, allowing the upcoming GC operation to execute.
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