Delete a Data Protection Filter from a Subclient

Before You Begin

• Review Filters.
• Do not change the data protection or discovery filter of a subclient that has a data protection operation in progress.
• File Archiver for Windows/Unix Agents: We recommend that you don't delete the following entries from the exclusion filter, as it could cause your file system to be inoperable. For Windows, these include: *.dll, *.bat, *.exe, *.cur, *.ico, *.lnk. For Unix, these include *.a, *.ksh, *.csh, *.sh, *.lib, *.so.

Required Capability: Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To delete a data protection or discovery filter entry from a subclient:

1. From the CommCell Browser, right-click the subclient whose data protection or discovery filter you want to delete, and then click Properties from the shortcut menu.
2. Click the Filters tab of the Subclient Properties dialog box.
3. To delete an entry from the Exclusions list, click the entry in the upper pane then click the upper Delete button. (Repeat this step for each entry that you want to delete.)
4. To delete an entry from the Exceptions list (if applicable for your agent), click the entry in the lower pane then click the lower Delete button. (Repeat this step for each entry that you want to delete.)
5. Click OK to save your changes.

NOTES

• Whenever you delete an entry from the exclusion filter, check if the exceptions list (i.e., lower pane) contains any entries that are children of the deleted data (if applicable for your agent). If so, you should delete them as described in Step 4 since they no longer need to be listed. The system automatically deletes any exceptions that are children of a deleted exclusion unless you used wildcard expressions in the exclusion path.
• When you change a data protection or discovery filter, the change is effective the next time the subclient is backed up/archived.
• Data will not be backed up in a differential backup for a subclient after a filter was removed.
• Since Incremental backups only back up data that has been modified since the last backup, previously filtered files whose filters are now removed, will not be backed up unless they have been modified since that last backup. To back up previously filtered files that have not been modified but whose filters have been removed since the last backup, you need to run a Full backup.
• Performing a full backup after changing filters or exceptions is recommended.