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Automated retention and legal hold

Automate records governance over the full lifecycle

Retain, dispose, hold and retrieve your critical records with confidence - all in one trusted archive.

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Consistently enforce records compliance across your archive

Automate and manage retention, disposition and legal holds in one system. Cut spoliation risk. Reduce over-retention costs. And keep every critical record searchable, defensible and actionable - for litigation, eDiscovery, FOI requests and regulatory audits.

One-touch retention

Apply a policy once and let Preservica calculate retention periods automatically from your metadata.

Defensible disposition

Deletion actions are auditable, and reportable — what was deleted, when, and by whom.

Legal hold built in

Holds override retention schedules automatically, eliminating the risk of accidental disposal.

Always actionable

Quickly find, read, trust and action records with confidence with Active Digital Preservation.

How it works

Configured once, enforced consistently — across your archive.

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Configure policies aligned to your retention schedules

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Audit deletion actions - defensibly

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Apply legal holds that override schedules automatically

Quickly set and apply retention policies across your records

  • Aligned with your schedules and deletion actions
  • Applied systematically across the archive
  • Retention calculated automatically from metadata
  • Synced to Microsoft 365 retention labels

Defensibly delete - with tamper-evident audit trail

  • Automate deletion - for one-touch records governance
  • Deletion and hold reporting for auditors, regulators or courts
  • Demonstrate compliance against spoilation claims

Synchronize holds and schedules - in one system

  • Legal hold overrides retention automatically
  • Multiple holds supported and appropriately handled
  • Defensible audit log of hold actions

Ensure your records are litigation, audit, FOI and AI ready

Preservica goes beyond simply holding and storing your records to make them unassailable.

Guaranteed authenticity

A cryptographic fingerprint is created at the moment of preservation. Prove mathematically — at any future point — that a document is identical to its original.

Unbreakable metadata bond

All original metadata — author, timestamps, version history, project attributes — is permanently bonded to the record.

Full immutability

Once held, records cannot be altered, overwritten, or deleted — by anyone, including administrators. Enforced at the system level, not just by policy.

Complete audit trail

Every action — preservation, access, hold changes, release — generates a tamper-evident audit event. A complete, unbroken chain of custody, always available.

Assured readability

The full record — its content, related files and metadata — is automatically maintained in always-readable file formats over decades, ensuring instant actionable use.

Manage retention and legal hold in one secure preservation archive

See how Preservica brings retention, defensible disposition, and legal hold together — for records you have to keep for decades.