Placing a legal hold on a user or organization

Usually, if someone deletes a repository, it will be available on disk for 90 days and can be restored via the site admin dashboard. After 90 days the repository is purged and deleted forever. If you place a legal hold on a user or organization, repositories they own are available for restore indefinitely.

1. Sign in to your GitHub Enterprise Server instance at http(s)://HOSTNAME/login.
2. In the upper-right corner of any page, click .
   
3. In the search field, type the name of the user or organization and click Search.
   
4. In the search results, click the name of the user or organization.
   
5. In the upper-right corner of the page, click Admin.
   
6. In the left sidebar, click Admin.
   
7. Click Place legal hold.