SRM Windows File System Reports

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Overview

Prerequisites

Configuration

Overview

Archiver Integration with SRM is a powerful feature that allows you to define some very specific rules for archiving specific files and directories. It combines the powerful SRM Reporting capability with Schedule Actions to initiate archive operations. Run Data Archiver is one of the actions available when scheduling SRM Reports that can be used for Archiving specific data. This can further be set using Filters to select only the files that need to be sent for Archiving.

SRM Archiver Integration provide the following features:

Prerequisites

  1. The following Agents must be installed before Archiver operations can be run using SRM Reports Notification:
  1. The CommCell User initiating this job must be assigned to a group that has Report Management and Data Protection/Management Operations rights on the client computer.

Configuration

Archive Files Using SRM Reports

1. Locate the correct client computer node that has both SRM Windows File System Agent and File Archiver for Windows Agent installed in the CommCell Browser.  
2.

·         In the File Archiver for Windows Agent, create a Local File System Instance.

      Right-click the File Archiver agent; select All Tasks > Create Instance > Local File System.

 

 
3. Create an On Demand Archive set within a Local File System Instance.

Right-click the Agent and click All Tasks and then click New On Demand Archive Set.

 
4. From the Create New On Demand Archive Set dialog box, enter a New Archive Set Name (up to 32 characters) of the archive set that you want to create and associate a storage policy with the default subclient by selecting one from the Storage Policies drop-down list.

 
5. Right click the subclient and click Properties, from the General tab of the Subclient Properties dialog box select Use content file provided by SRM. When done, click OK to continue.
6. In the SRM Windows File System Agent, run a Data Collection job with File Level Analytics option selected.

Navigate to the Subclient level and select Subclient Properties by right clicking the Subclient.

In the SRM Options tab Discovery is automatically selected. For detailed reporting with file level details select Discovery and Analysis with File Level Analytics then click OK.
7. From the CommCell Browser, right-click the SRM Windows File System Agent, and then click Data Collection from the short-cut menu.

From the Backup Options select backup type as Full.

From job Initiation, select Immediate and confirm your changes by selecting OK.

 
8. From the CommCell Browser, expand Reports, and then click SRM Report Manager.
  For creating SRM Report Action you must have permissions to perform data protection/management operations on the clients selected.

 
9. Expand File Systems>Windows>File Level Analytics and select one of the following templates to display the Filters window.
  • File Level Analytics Directories - selecting this template will archive all files within a directory.
  • File Level Analytics Files  - selecting this template will archive selected files.

 
10. Click the Client Selection tab and select the client computers that have both the Windows File System iDataAgent and File Archiver for Windows Agent installed and configured.
11. Click Column Selection tab. For the selected template, the columns are displayed here. To change the columns, select a category and click Add or Remove to move the columns between the Available and Selected boxes.
12. Click the Report Options tab and select the General or Advanced tab to modify any options.
13. Click the Filters tab to apply a SQL Query to further refine the data in the report e.g.

Modification Time < ‘06/01/2007’

Size > 1024
14. Select the Get SQL Query tab to display this query in long notation (that will be used to get the data and generate the report).
  Run the report and review the file list before scheduling them for archiving to make sure you are satisfied with the selections.

 
15. Click Schedule to generate and schedule the report on a daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, or even one time basis.

Optionally, click Options to repeat sending the report every so many days, or run it for a particular number of times.

Click Next.
16. In Report Options - Format, select MHTML, EXCEL, or PDF. Specify a path in Destination Path if you want to save the report to a local drive or network share and click Next. 

 
17. In Action Type(s) Selection dialog, configure the Run Data Archiver as an Action for the scheduled report by selecting Run Data Archiver option.

Review your selection and click Finish.
18. If scheduled, the SRM Archiver activity can be Run Immediately from within CommCell Console using Scheduler.

 
19. SRM Report operation will complete followed by the Archiver operation.

 
20. To view files that have been archived follow steps above for configuring the File Level Analytics reports and include Is Stub File and Stub File Space Saved columns before running the report.
21. In addition stubbed files can be viewed in Windows explorer with archive icon and Offline attribute.

Recover Archived Files

1. To recover files from within the CommCell Console, right click on the OnDemand Archive Set and select View > Archiving History.

From the Archive History Filter, choose the Job Status and set required values in Specify Time Range section then click OK.
2. From the Archive Job History of OnDemand Archive Set right-click the job(s) from which you need to recover archived files and select Browse.

From the Browse Options dialog select defaults or make changes as needed and click OK.
3.

From the Client section select any/all files to recover, and click on Recover All Selected.
4. The Recover Options dialog pops up, accept the defaults or make necessary changes in this dialog and click OK when done.

In the Job Controller tab the Recovery job will run through completion.