Incremental Storage Policy - How To

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Enable an Incremental Storage Policy

Disable an Incremental Storage Policy From a Storage Policy

Delete a Storage Policy that has an Incremental Storage Policy Enabled

Enable an Incremental Storage Policy

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To enable an incremental storage policy:

1. From the CommCell Browser, right click the storage policy that you want to enable an incremental storage policy, then click Properties.
2. From the General tab of the Storage Policy Properties dialog box, select a storage policy from the Incremental Storage Policy list.
3. Click Yes to the confirmation prompt that the next backup for all subclients for this storage policy will be forced to be a full backup.
4. From the Force Full Backup - Confirmation dialog box, select either the Force next backup to be a full (Recommended) field or the Do not force field (if you do not want to force the next backup to be a full backup).
5. Click OK to save your changes.

Disable an Incremental Storage Policy From a Storage Policy

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To disable a storage policy that is associated with a full storage policy:

1. From the CommCell Browser, right click the storage policy that you want to disable the incremental storage policy from, then click Properties.
2. From the (General) tab of the Storage Policy Properties dialog box, clear the check box.
3. Click OK to save your changes.
4. From the Force Full Backup - Confirmation dialog box, select either the Force next backup to be a full (Recommended) field or the Do not force field (if you do not want to force the next backup to be a full backup).
5. Click OK.

Delete a Storage Policy that has an Incremental Storage Policy Enabled

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To delete a storage policy that has an incremental storage policy enabled:

1. From the CommCell Browser, right-click the storage policy you want to delete, then click Properties.
2. From the General tab of the Storage Policy Properties dialog box, clear the Incremental Storage Policy check box.
3. Click OK to save your changes.
4. From the Force Full Backup - Confirmation dialog box, select either the Force next backup to be a full (Recommended) field or the Do not force field (if you do not want to force the next backup to be a full backup).
5. Click OK.
6. Right-click the storage policy that you want to delete, click All Tasks and then click Delete.
7. Click Yes to the confirmation message.
8. Type erase and reuse media. Click OK.
9. The selected storage policy is deleted and removed from the CommCell Browser.

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