Storage Policies - How To

From the CommCell Browser, right-click the subclient whose associated storage policy you want to change, then click Properties from the shortcut menu.
Click the Storage Device tab of the Subclient Properties dialog box.
From the Storage Policy list of the Data Storage Policy tab, select a data storage policy to associate with this subclient. If necessary, click the Create Storage Policy button to create a new storage policy to which the subclient can then be associated.
From the Changing a Storage Policy window select the next type of backup operation. Click OK.
If applicable for your agent, you can change the number of data streams from the Number of Data/Database Backup Streams field.
If applicable for your agent, click the Log Storage Policy tab and select a storage policy to associate with this transaction log subclient from the Transaction Log Storage Policy list. Also, you can set the Number of Transaction Log Backup Streams from this tab.
Click OK to save your changes and close the Subclient Properties Storage Device tab.

Associate Multiple Subclients to a Storage Policy

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To associate multiple subclients to a storage policy:

From the CommCell Browser, right-click on the Storage Policy node, and select the Associate Subclients option.
From the Subclient Association with Storage Policy window, select (highlight) the subclients to be associated or re-associated to a storage policy.
Select the storage policy from the Change all selected Storage Policies to drop-down menu. All selected (highlighted) subclients will be associated to this storage policy.
Click OK to save your changes.

Change the Copy Precedence

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To change the copy precedence of a storage policy copy:

From the CommCell Browser, right click the storage policy whose copy precedence you want to change, and then click Properties.
From the Copy Precedence tab of the Storage Policy Properties dialog box, select a synchronous or selective copy and click the arrow buttons to change its copy precedence. The arrows will move a copy to a higher or lower precedence in increments of 1. For more information, see Recovering Data From Copies.
Click OK.

Change the Maximum Number of Data Streams

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To change the maximum number of data streams:

From the CommCell Browser, right click the storage policy whose quantity of data streams you want to change, and then click Properties.
From the General tab of the Storage Policy Properties dialog box, type the number of data streams that you want to allocate for the storage policy in the Device Streams field.
Click OK to save your changes.

Change the Name of a Storage Policy

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To rename a storage policy:

From the CommCell Browser, right click the storage policy that you want to rename, and then click Properties.
From the General tab of the Storage Policy Properties dialog box, type the new name (up to 32 characters) in the Storage Policy Name field.
Click OK to save your changes.

Create a Selective Copy

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To create a selective copy:

From the CommCell Browser, right-click the storage policy for which you wish to create the secondary copy, click All Tasks and then click Create New Copy.
From the General tab of the Copy Properties dialog box:
- Enter the copy name in the Copy Name box.
- Select the Combine to <n> Streams check box if you want to combine data streams during an auxiliary copy operation on this copy.
- De-select the Active check box if you want to specify that this should be an inactive copy.
- Select the library, MediaAgent, drive pool and scratch pool from the lists (drive pool and scratch pool are not applicable for magnetic libraries).
- Select the Selective Copy check box. The Selective Copy tab is enabled.
Select a standard or custom calendar from the Calendar for Selective Copy and Extended Retention drop-down list. Note that this option is only available if a custom calendar was created.
From the Retention tab of the Copy Properties dialog box:
- Click the Enable data aging checkbox, to enable or disable Data Aging on this copy.
- Click the Enable Managed Disk Space for magnetic data, to enable or disable Managed Disk Space.
- Change the retention time and retention cycles of the Basic Retention Rules from their default settings of infinite, if needed.
- Change the Extended Retention Rules, if necessary.
Click the Copy Policy tab of the Copy Properties dialog box:
- Choose a date from the Backups On And After field. This date can be on, before, or after the current CommServe date. When the date entered is after the current CommServe date, jobs that are to be copied, as well as partially copied jobs will be disabled for copy. If no date is entered, all backup data will be copied from the primary copy to the secondary copy.
- Click the Specify source for Auxiliary Copy check box if you wish to copy data from a copy other than the primary copy.
The All Backups option is not available for selective copies; therefore, you must choose a date from the Backups On And After field.
Click the Selective Copy tab.
- Select Automatically select Full Backups (all) to automatically copy all full backups regardless of time.
- Select Automatically select Full Backups (weekly, monthly, quarterly, half yearly, or yearly) for the copy to be time-based. If the copy is time based, you can select one of the following options:
  - First full backup
  - Last full backup (which is based on the following two options):
    - Select most recent job if there are no more full backup schedules in current time period
      Specifies that the last full backup of the specified time period will be copied from the source copy to this copy if there are no future full backup schedules within the same time period.
    - Wait until the current time period is over before selecting a backup for this time period
      Specifies that, after the end of the specified time period, the last full backup during that time will be copied from the source copy to this copy. Note that this option is not enabled if the source of the selective copy is a Primary Copy that is defined with zero cycle retention or configured as a spool copy; this is because jobs can be aged immediately after they are copied to synchronous copies, which is before the current time period ends.
- Select Do not Automatically select jobs so no backups will be copied to this copy unless they are manually selected for copy from the Job for Storage Policy Copy dialog box or the Select most recent full backup when auxiliary copy starts option has been selected from the Auxiliary Copy Options dialog box.
If there are no auxiliary copy schedules defined for all copies of the storage policy, you are asked to confirm if you would like to schedule auxiliary copy operations for this copy. Select Default Schedule, if you would like an auxiliary copy operation to be scheduled to be run daily at 8:00 A.M., select Custom Schedule if you would like to define a schedule, select Automatic Schedule if you would like an Automatic Copy to run every 30 minutes, or select Do Not Schedule. Click Yes if you would like to run or schedule this job. Click OK.

Create a Storage Policy

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To create a storage policy:

From the CommCell Browser, right-click the Storage Policies node, and select New Storage Policy from the shortcut menu.

Follow the prompts displayed in the Storage Policy Wizard to configure the following:

Type of Storage Policy: Backup, Compliance Archiver or Disaster Recovery Backup
Designate Storage Policy for Legal Hold: Yes or No

This is only applicable for Backup, Compliance Archiver storage policies. Legal Hold designation status cannot be changed at a later time.
Name of Storage Policy (and Incremental Storage Policy, if selected)
Name of the Primary Copy
Name of the default library to which the Primary Copy should be associated
Name of the MediaAgent
Stream and Retention Configuration (default is infinite)

Designate Primary Copy for Deduplication: Yes or No. Also, select the Deduplication Type: Block Level or Object Level.

If you select No, you cannot enable deduplication on the primary copy at a later time. However, you can enable deduplication on the secondary copies during creation. See Enable Deduplication for a Secondary Copy for details.

Name of the Deduplication Store, MediaAgent for Deduplication Store access, and location of the Deduplication Database. Note that the deduplication database must be located in a folder and not directly under the root of a disk volume.

The Review Summary window is displayed. Review your selections and then click Cancel, Back (to return to a previous window to change a selection), or Finish (to exit and create the storage policy).

Create a Synchronous Copy

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To create a synchronous copy:

From the CommCell Browser, right-click the storage policy for which you wish to create the secondary copy, click All Tasks and then click Create New Copy.
From the General tab of the Copy Properties dialog box:
- Select the Combine to <n> Streams check box if you want to combine data streams during an auxiliary copy operation on this copy.
- De-select the Active check box if you want to specify that this should be an inactive copy.
- Enable Inline Copy for data to be backed up to this copy in addition to the primary copy.
- Select Do Not Make Inline Copy to Same Library to prevent a job from being copied to the same library during Inline Copy operations.
- Enable Parallel Copy for data to be copied to multiple secondary copies concurrently rather than sequentially.
- Select the library, MediaAgent, master drive pool and scratch pool from the lists (not applicable for magnetic libraries).
From the Retention tab of the Copy Properties dialog box:
- Click the Enable data aging checkbox, to enable or disable Data Aging on this copy.
- Click the Enable Managed Disk Space for magnetic data, to enable or disable Managed Disk Space.
- Change the retention time and retention cycles of the Basic Retention Rules from their default settings of infinite, if needed.
- Change the Extended Retention Rules, if necessary.
Click the Copy Policy tab of the Copy Properties dialog box:
- Choose a date from the Backups On And After field. This date can be on, before, or after the current CommServe date. When the date entered is after the current CommServe date, jobs that are to be copied, as well as partially copied jobs will be disabled for copy. If no date is entered, all backup data will be copied from the primary copy to the secondary copy.
- Click the Specify source for Auxiliary Copy check box if you wish to copy data from a copy other than the primary copy.
The All Backups option is not available for selective copies; therefore, you must choose a date from the Backups On And After field.
Click OK to save your changes.
If there are no auxiliary copy schedules defined for all copies of the storage policy, you are asked to confirm if you would like to schedule auxiliary copy operations for this copy. Select Default Schedule, if you would like an auxiliary copy operation to be scheduled to be run daily at 8:00 A.M., select Custom Schedule if you would like to define a schedule, select Automatic Schedule if you would like a Automatic Copy to run every 30 minutes, or select Do Not Schedule. Click Yes if you would like to run or schedule this job. Click OK.

Delete a Disaster Recovery Backup Storage Policy

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

Before you Begin

Create a new Disaster Recovery storage policy � a CommCell must have at least one Disaster Recovery storage policy. If you wish to deconfigure the mount path to reclaim the space, use a different library for the new storage policy.

To delete a Disaster Recovery Backup storage policy:

From the CommCell Browser, right-click the CommServe icon, click Control Panel, and select DR Backup Settings.
From the DR Backup Settings (Export Settings) dialog box, in the Back Up Metadata to this DR Storage Policy dropdown list, select the newly-created storage policy.
From the CommCell Browser, select the Storage Policies parent node to view the property details of all the storage policies displayed in the right-hand windowpane. Check the Disable Subclient Association checkbox for the Storage Policy for which you want to delete.
From the CommCell Browser, right-click the Disaster Recovery Backup storage policy that you want to delete, click All Tasks and then click Delete.
A warning dialog box will display indicating that this policy is the active target of disaster recovery backups and a new target should be specified prior to deletion. Click Continue.
If your Disaster Recovery Backup storage policy is defined in such a way that it is backing up to a removable media, a dialog box displays with a selection to export media. Note that you will not be prompted to export media if your Disaster Recovery Backup storage policy backs up data to magnetic media.
If you choose to export media, from the Export Media (Delete Storage Policy) dialog box, select the media to be exported and click OK.
Type an outside storage location in the Export Media dialog box and click Export. Click OK to the message displayed. For more information on exporting media, see Exporting a Specific Media.
You can continue to export the existing media or choose to continue with the deletion.
After clicking Continue, the Disaster Recovery Backup storage policy is deleted.
If you chose to delete the storage policy without exporting media, you are prompted to confirm that you want to delete the storage policy. Click OK. The Disaster Recovery Backup storage policy is deleted. The associated mount path can then be deconfigured.

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:

From the CommCell Browser, right-click the storage policy you want to delete, then click Properties.
From the General tab of the Storage Policy Properties dialog box, clear the Incremental Storage Policy check box.
Click OK to save your changes.
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).
Click OK.
Right-click the storage policy that you want to delete, click All Tasks and then click Delete.
Click Yes to the confirmation message.
Type erase and reuse media. Click OK.
The selected storage policy is deleted and removed from the CommCell Browser.

If subclients are still associated with the storage policy that you want to delete, an explanatory message is displayed and the delete operation is aborted.

Delete a Standard Storage Policy

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To delete an iDataAgent Backup or DataArchiver storage policy:

From the CommCell Browser, right-click the storage policy that you want to delete, and click Properties.
Review the Associated Subclients tab. If you find any subclients associated to the storage policy, re-associate them using the Re-Associate option. Click OK to save the changes.
Alternatively, you can disable all subclient association. From the CommCell Browser, select the Storage Policies parent node to view the property details of all the storage policies displayed in the right-hand windowpane. Check the Disable Subclient Association checkbox for the Storage Policy for which you want to delete.
From the CommCell Browser, right-click the storage policy that you want to delete, click All Tasks and then click Delete from the short-cut menu.
Click Yes to the confirmation message.
Type erase and reuse media. Click OK.
The selected storage policy is deleted and removed from the CommCell Browser. The associated mount path can then be deconfigured.

If subclients are still associated with the storage policy that you want to delete, an explanatory message is displayed and the delete operation is aborted.

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:

From the CommCell Browser, right click the storage policy that you want to disable the incremental storage policy from, then click Properties.
From the (General) tab of the Storage Policy Properties dialog box, clear the check box.
Click OK to save your changes.
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).
Click OK.

Enable an Incremental Storage Policy

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To enable an incremental storage policy:

From the CommCell Browser, right click the storage policy that you want to enable an incremental storage policy, then click Properties.
From the General tab of the Storage Policy Properties dialog box, select a storage policy from the Incremental Storage Policy list.
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.
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).
Click OK to save your changes.

Enable/Disable Stream Randomization

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To enable stream randomization:

From the CommCell Browser, right click the storage policy for which you want to enable stream randomization, then click Properties.
From the General tab of the Storage Policy Properties dialog box, mark the checkbox for Enable Stream Randomization. Note that this field is only enabled when the storage policy is configured to use more than one (1) data stream.
Click OK.

To disable this feature, deselect the checkbox.

Tune Stream Randomization

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To tune the stream randomization feature:

From the Control Panel, double-click Media Management.
From the Service Configuration tab of the Media management Configuration dialog box, perform the following:
- In the Interval (in minutes) to calculate valid data size for streams field specify the interval to calculate the data size for streams.
- In the Threshold (in GB) to decide how to distribute data among streams for backup field specify the threshold to decide data distribution among streams.
Click OK to save the changes.

Migrate a Magnetic Library

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To perform a magnetic library migration from one MediaAgent to another MediaAgent:

Right-click the magnetic library that you want to migrate to another MediaAgent and click Migrate Magnetic Library.
A message is displayed indicating that this operation migrates the magnetic library to another MediaAgent. Click OK.
The Select MediaAgent dialog box is displayed. This dialog box displays the current MediaAgent that the magnetic library is associated with and allows you to select a MediaAgent to migrate to. From the drop-down list, select the MediaAgent you want to migrate to and click OK.
The magnetic library will now be associated with the selected MediaAgent. To view the magnetic library properties to verify successful migration, right click on the magnetic library where you want to view the properties, and click Properties.
The MediaAgent is displayed on the General tab.
Make sure that the mount path associated with the magnetic library, points to valid path. (See Add or Modify Mount Paths for step-by-step instructions.)

Password Protect the Media of a Storage Policy

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To password protect the media of a storage policy:

From the CommCell Browser, right click the storage policy for which you wish to password protect the media, and then click Properties.
From the Advanced tab of the Storage Policy Properties dialog box, select the Enable Storage Policy Level Media Password option. Note that the media password is used to prevent unauthorized access to the data residing on media used by the system for this storage policy. If not enabled, the CommServe Level Media Password is the default password.
Enter the password information accordingly, and click OK to save your changes.

Re-Associate the Subclients of a Storage Policy

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To re-associate the subclients of a storage policy:

From the CommCell Browser, right-click the storage policy whose subclients you want to re-associate, and then click Properties.
Click the Associated Subclients tab of the Storage Policy Properties dialog box.
Select the subclients, and then click Re-Associate.
From the Storage Policy List dialog box, select a storage policy you would like to re-associate the subclients to. Click OK.
Click OK to save your changes.

Start an Auxiliary Copy

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To start an auxiliary copy:

From the CommCell Browser, right-click the storage policy for which you want to perform an auxiliary copy, click All Tasks, and then click Run Auxiliary Copy. You can also right-click the CommServe icon, click All Tasks and then click Auxiliary Copy.
From the Auxiliary Copy Options tab on the Auxiliary Copy dialog box, if you are starting the auxiliary copy operation from the CommServe level, select the storage policy for which you wish to perform the auxiliary copy. Note: If you are starting the auxiliary copy operation from the Storage Policy level, the Storage Policy field is already populated with the name of the Storage Policy you selected.
If the source copy is configured with a shared library, select the Source MediaAgent for the auxiliary copy.
Select All Copies to copy data from the source copy to all secondary copies defined, or select a copy from the Select a Copy list box.
Select Start new media to copy the data to a different tape or optical media. On a magnetic disk, this option, when selected, creates a new volume folder for the operation.
Select the number of streams to copy in parallel from the Number of Streams to Copy in Parallel pane, or select Allow Maximum.
Select Mark media full after successful operation to mark the media that is used for this operation full after the auxiliary copy operation has successfully completed.
Select Select Most Recent Full Backup When Auxiliary Copy Starts to have the most recent successful full backup for each subclient copied when the Auxiliary Copy job is run.
From the Job Initiation tab on the Auxiliary Copy dialog box, select the time for this job to run or choose to Run Immediately. You can also configure an alert for this job.

Click Advanced to configure the Vault Tracker, Startup and Job Retry options.

Click Vault Tracking to select additional Vault Tracker options for this operation from the Vault Tracking dialog box.
Note: This option is only available if a Vault Tracker license is available in the CommServe.
Click Startup to change the priority of this job and, if necessary, to start this job in a suspended state from the Startup dialog box.

Click the Job Retry tab to specify the job running time and the number of job retries. See Restarting Jobs and Job Running Time for more information.

The Number of Retries specified for this particular job will only be used by the system if Auxiliary Copy was configured as a Restartable job type in the Job Management Control Panel. For procedures, see Specify Job Restartability for the CommCell.

Click OK to start the auxiliary copy operation. A progress bar displays the progress of the operation.

View the Jobs Scheduled For a Storage Policy

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To view the jobs scheduled for a storage policy:

From the CommCell Browser, right-click the storage policy for which you want to view the jobs scheduled,

click All Tasks, and then click Schedules. The Scheduled Jobs Dialog dialog box displays the jobs scheduled for this storage policy.

View/Edit a Storage Policy

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To view/edit a storage policy:

From the CommCell Browser, right click the storage policy that you want to view, and then click Properties.
From the Storage Properties dialog boxes, you can view/edit the fields as deemed necessary.
Click OK to save your changes.

You can view basic storage policy property descriptions by clicking on a Storage Policy in the CommCell Browser. The storage policy details are displayed in the right-hand windowpane.

Disable/Enable Additional Subclient Associations for a Storage Policy

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To disable additional subclient associations for a a storage policy:

From the CommCell Browser, select the Storage Policies parent node to view the property details of all the storage policies displayed in the right-hand windowpane.
Check the Disable Subclient Association checkbox for the Storage Policy for which you want to disable/enable additional subclient associations.

If a storage policy is marked as disabled for subclient associations, the storage policy will not be listed as available when creating/or editing the associations of a subclient. The subclient will also not be available for association when a new client is being installed to the CommServe, which has a disabled storage policy.