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Create/Modify a FPolicy Instance

Create a New Subclient

Configure File Server Authentication Credentials

Create/Modify a FPolicy Instance

Before You Begin

• Review information about Instances - File Archiver before beginning this procedure.
• Review FPolicy for prerequisite information

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Required Actions

To create/modify a FPolicy Instance:

1. To create a FPolicy instance, from the CommCell Browser, locate the correct client computer node, and right-click the agent node for which you want the new instance created, click All Tasks, click Create Instance from the shortcut menu, and then click FPolicy.

   To modify an existing instance, from the CommCell Browser, right-click the instance you want to modify, and then click Properties from the shortcut menu.

2. From the General tab, enter the name (up to 32 characters) for the instance.
   
   When modifying an existing instance, you cannot change the name of the instance. However, you can change the filer name and credentials.
3. Enter a name for the NetApp filer - see Add/Change Filer Name.
4. Enter the credentials for the NetApp Filer - see Configure Filer/Proxy Authentication Credentials.
5. Click OK to save the instance.

Create a New Subclient

Before You Begin

• Review Subclients.
• Do not create a subclient while the parent node or any sibling subclient has a data protection or archive operation currently running on it.
• In cases where a new subclient is created with the same name as a deleted subclient, the system will append a Unix time stamp to the deleted subclient's name in data protection job history reports and views to distinguish the two subclients. For example, subclientname_1104257351.
• Informix iDataAgents: If you will be using the Informix ONBAR utility to create backup and restore scripts, you need not create subclients. Otherwise, if you will be using the CommCell Console to back up and restore Informix database objects (subsets/dbspaces), then you will need to create a subclient.
• ProxyHost iDataAgents: If you are using a BCV, you must prepare a batch file or a shell script file on the backup host containing commands to synchronize and split the BCV. The Resource Pack includes information on configurations for these batch files or shell scripts, as well as examples that apply to specific applications and hardware (e.g., Exchange databases in an EMC Symmetrix environment). See Tools and Utilities for more information on the Resource Pack.

  The ProxyHost iDataAgent also requires that you set permissions for the batch/shell script file on the backup host.

• SQL Server 2000/2005 Database iDataAgents: When running on Windows Server 2003 and VSS is enabled, the New Subclient command is not available.

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To create a new subclient:

1. From the CommCell Browser, right-click the node (agent/backup set/archive set/instance) for which you want to create a new subclient, click All Tasks (if applicable), and then simply click New Subclient for most agents.
   • For the SQL Server iDataAgent, expand New Subclient and click either Database to include individual databases or File/File Group to include database elements.
   • For the File Archiver Agent for Windows with Data Classification, right-click the DataClassSet,  expand All Tasks, and then click Create DataClassSet (subclient).
2. Click the General tab or General (Quick Recovery Agent) tab of the Subclient Properties dialog box and type the name (up to 32 characters) of the subclient that you want to create.
   • For supported agents identified in Support Information - Snapshot Engines, you can select a QSnap option to snap data and then perform a data protection operation on the data.
   • For QR Agents, you must also select a QR Policy from the QR Policy list.
   • For the Windows iDataAgents that support VSS, you can optionally Enable VSS on a Subclient.
3. Select other options from the General tab as appropriate for the agent.
4. Click the Content or Databases tab of the Subclient Properties dialog box and Configure Subclient Content as appropriate for your agent.
5. For all agents (except QR), click the Storage Device (Data Storage Policy) tab of the Subclient Properties dialog box, then select a data storage policy to associate with this subclient from the storage policy list.
   • For the DB2 and DB2 DPF iDataAgents, you can also change the number of data backup streams. For the DB2 DPF iDataAgent, the default stream threshold should be equal to the total number of database partitions for the subclient.
   • For SQL Server iDataAgents, you can also click the Storage Device (Log Storage Policy) tab of the Subclient Properties dialog box, then select a log storage policy to associate with this subclient from the storage policy list and select the number of backup streams for transaction log backup jobs.
   • For 1-Touch for Unix, it is strongly recommended that the storage policy that you select for the subclient configured for 1-Touch use a MediaAgent on a different computer. If you do this, and if the system crashes, the media will not have to be exported to another MediaAgent in order to recover the system.
6. For Oracle and DB2 iDataAgents, click the Backup Arguments (Oracle) or Backup Arguments (DB2, DB2 DPF) tab of the Subclient Properties dialog box and Configure Backup Arguments as appropriate for your agent. Note that the backup arguments for Informix are located on the Content tab.
7. For Migration Archiver Agents, click the Archiving Rules or Rules tab of the Subclient Properties dialog box and configure archiving rules as appropriate for your agent. In order to perform rules-based migration archiving operations, the Disable All Rules checkbox must be cleared.

   If the File Archiver for Windows supports Data Classification, several filter-like configuration fields are defined as archiving rules and are available from the Subclient Properties (Rules) tab. If you want to define content and archiving rules based on file attributes other than volumes, size, and modified time (i.e., if you want to customize your rules), click the Advanced tab and configure as appropriate. Also, stub management options can be configured from the Stub Rule tab. See Configure Archiving Rules - File Archiver Agents for step-by-step instructions.

8. For ProxyHost and Image Level ProxyHost iDataAgents, click the Pre/Post Process tab of the Subclient Properties dialog box. In the PreScan field, type the path to the batch file/shell script file that contains those commands that are to run before each backup of the subclient, or click Browse to locate and select this file. For ProxyHost and Image Level ProxyHost, the file must reside on the backup host or primary host.
9. Optionally (if supported for your agent) you can:
   • Add a Data Protection or Discovery Filter for a Subclient on the Filters tab.
   • Configure a Subclient for Pre/Post Processing of Data Protection/Archive Operations on the Pre/Post Process tab.
   • Enable Software Compression for a Subclient on the Software Compression tab of the Storage Device tab.
   • Configure the Subclient for Data Encryption on the Encryption tab.
   • Enable or Disable Operations for this subclient on the Activity Control tab.
   • Configure Mailbox Stores for Auto-Discovery on the Auto-discovery tab.
   • Configure the Subclient for 1-Touch on the 1-Touch Recovery tab.
   • View or change the user group security associations for this subclient from the Security tab.
   • Determine location from where archive logs will be backed up or deleted from the Log Destinations tab.
   • Enable backups using a snap engine from the Snap Backups tab.
10. Click OK to save the subclient configuration. For QR Agents, this procedure is now complete. For all other agents, continue on to the next step.
11. The Backup Schedule dialog box advises you to schedule data protection operations for your new subclient. It is recommended you elect to set a schedule now. You can also associate this subclient with an All Agent Types schedule policy (which is automatically created by the system, or can be a user defined Data Protection schedule policy). If you have already associated a schedule policy at a previous level (Backup Set/Instance, Agent, Client, or Client Computer Group) the schedules defined in the Schedule Policy will be automatically applied to the new subclient. See Schedule Policy for more information.
    • If you want to associate this subclient with an All Agent Types schedule policy, click Associate with Generic Schedule Policy, and then select that schedule policy from the drop-down list box. Click OK.
    • If you want to associate this subclient with a specific schedule policy, click Associate to schedule policy, and then select the schedule policy from the drop-down list box. Click OK.
    • If you have selected to define a schedule for this subclient:
      • Click Schedule.
      • From the Backup/Archive Options dialog box, select the type of data protection operation that you want to schedule.
      • If you want to set Advanced Backup/Archive Options, click Advanced.
      • After selecting the data protection type and any advanced options, click OK. The Schedule Details dialog box appears.
      • From the Schedule Details tab, select the scheduling options that you want to apply, then click OK.
    • If you don't want to create a data protection schedule at this time, click Do Not Schedule, and then click OK.

This task is now complete.

Configure File Server/Proxy Authentication Credentials

Before You Begin

This feature requires a Feature License to be available in the CommServe. Review general license requirements included in License Administration. For step-by-step instructions on how to view the license information, see View All Licenses.

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To configure filer/proxy authentication credentials:

1. From the CommCell Browser, right-click the instance icon for the File Archiver Agent for Windows that you want to configure and then click Properties.
2. Click Configure Password.
3. Enter the User Name for the domain in which the network storage file server/proxy resides. Include the domain name with the user name. For example, domainA \administrator.
4. Enter the Password for the User Name entered above.

After all configuration tasks have been completed, reboot the IIS Server and for Celerra instances, the proxy computer where the File Archiver for Windows Agent is installed. This will ensure that the recall service recognizes all the configuration changes necessary to recall archived data.

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