Techniques for propagating retention policy changes for recovery from an archive

An apparatus, comprising:

• one or more memories storing processor-executable code;
• and
• one or more processors coupled with the one or more memories and individually or collectively operable to execute the code to cause the apparatus to:
• establish a first data system in accordance with a service level agreement (SLA) retention policy, wherein the SLA retention policy is indicative of a first duration that one or more backups of one or more data objects are retained by the first data system;
• store the one or more backups of the one or more data objects in an archival location in accordance with the SLA retention policy;
• obtain, from a user, an indication of one or more updates made to the SLA retention policy;
• perform, in response to obtaining the indication of the one or more updates made to the SLA retention policy, an on-demand job to propagate the one or more updates made to the SLA retention policy to the one or more backups of the one or more data objects stored in the archival location;
• establish a secondary data system to access the one or more backups of the one or more data objects stored in the archival location;
• promote the secondary data system from a read permission to an owner permission;
• and
• restore the one or more data objects in the secondary data system in accordance with the one or more updates to the SLA retention policy.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing code, the code comprising instructions executable by one or more processors to:

• establish a first data system in accordance with a service level agreement (SLA) retention policy, wherein the SLA retention policy is indicative of a first duration that one or more backups of one or more data objects are retained by the first data system;
• store the one or more backups of the one or more data objects in an archival location in accordance with the SLA retention policy;
• obtain, from a user, an indication of one or more updates made to the SLA retention policy;
• perform, in response to obtaining the indication of the one or more updates made to the SLA retention policy, an on-demand job to propagate the one or more updates made to the SLA retention policy to the one or more backups of the one or more data objects stored in the archival location;
• establish a secondary data system to access the one or more backups of the one or more data objects stored in the archival location;
• promote the secondary data system from a read permission to an owner permission;
• and
• restore the one or more data objects in the secondary data system in accordance with the one or more updates to the SLA retention policy.