Storage Policy Copy Operations - How To

From the CommCell Browser, right-click the storage policy copy for which you wish to add the data paths, then click Properties.
Click the Data Paths tab. Note that depending on the criteria selected for using an alternate data path, you may have to share the indexes as described in Create Shared Index Cache.
Click Add.
From the Copy Data Path Candidates dialog box, select the data path candidates that you wish to add.
You can select multiple candidates by holding down the CTRL key and clicking on each of the data path candidates that you wish to select.
Click Add.
Click OK.
Click OK in the Data Paths tab to save the information.

Associate a Custom Calendar to a Storage Policy Copy

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To associate a custom calendar to a storage policy copy:

Right-click the storage policy copy for which you wish to associate a custom calendar, and then click Properties.
From the General tab of the Copy Properties dialog box, select a calendar from the Calendar for Selective Copy and Extended Retention checkbox.
Click OK to save your changes.

Associating a custom calendar to a storage policy copy changes the time intervals by which data is copied to and aged from this copy.

Associate a Subclient to a Storage Policy

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To associate a subclient to a storage policy:

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.

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 Data Path of a Storage Policy Copy

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To change the data path of a Storage Policy Copy:

Right click a storage policy copy for which you want to change the data path , click All Tasks and click Change Data Path.
The Change Data Path dialog box is displayed.
- For magnetic media, select the appropriate Library and the MediaAgent where you want to migrate the media.
- For tape and optical media, select the appropriate Library, Master Drive Pool, Drive Pool, and Scratch Pool where you want to migrate the media.
Click OK to change the data path.

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.

Change the Name of a Storage Policy Copy

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To change the name of a storage policy copy:

From the right pane of the CommCell Browser, right-click the storage policy copy that you wish to rename and then click Properties.
From the General tab of the Copy Properties dialog box, type the new name in the Copy Name field.
Click OK to save your changes.

Change the Retention Rules of a Storage Policy Copy

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To change the retention rules for a primary or secondary storage policy copy:

From the right pane of the CommCell Browser, right-click the storage policy copy for which you wish to change the retention rule, and select Properties.
From the Retention tab of the Copy Properties dialog box, you can:
- Enable Data Aging. Data Aging must be enabled to set retention rules.
- Enable Managed Disk Space for magnetic data. This is only enabled when copy points to magnetic library.
- Set the Basic Retention Rules for All Backups and Data/Compliance Archiver Data.
Optionally, you can set extended retention rules in the Extended Retention Rules pane by:
- Selecting the number of days to keep All Fulls, the Weekly Full, Monthly Full, Quarterly Full, Half Yearly Full, or the Yearly Full.
- Selecting the start time of the weekly, monthly, or yearly rule.
- Selecting the First full backup of time period radio button if you want the first full backup of each Extended Retention Rule retained, or select the Last full backup of time period (the default) radio button if you want the last full backup of each Extended Retention Rule retained.
Click OK to save your changes.

Change the Scratch Pool Associated With a Storage Policy Copy

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To change the scratch pool for a storage policy copy:

From the right pane of the CommCell Browser, right-click the storage policy copy for which you wish to change the scratch pool, and click Properties.
From the General tab of the Copy Properties dialog box, select another scratch pool from the Scratch Pool list.
Click OK to save your changes.

Change the Storage Policy Copy Backups on and After Date

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To change the Backups On And After date for a storage policy copy:

From the right pane of the CommCell Browser, right-click the storage policy copy for want to change the effective date, and click Properties.
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.

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.

Combine the Data Streams of a Storage Policy Copy

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To combine the data streams of a storage policy copy:

From the right pane of the CommCell Browser, right-click the storage policy copy for which you wish to combine data streams, and select Properties.
From the Copy Properties (Media) window, select the number of streams to which you wish to combine streams during an auxiliary copy operation in the Combine Source Data Streams to n Streams box.
Click OK to save your changes.

Enable Multiplexing for a Storage Policy Copy with Combined Data Streams

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To enable multiplexing for a storage policy copy with combined streams:

From the right pane of the CommCell Browser, right-click the storage policy copy for which you wish to configure multiplexing, and select Properties.
From the Copy Properties (Media) window, select the Multiplex Source Streams option to enable the feature for this storage policy copy, and then select the Multiplex Factor. Note that this feature is only configurable when the storage policy copy has been configured to combine streams, and the copies do not contain deduplicated data.
Click OK to save your changes.

Configure a Storage Policy Copy for Data Verification

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To configure a storage policy copy for data verification:

From the right pane of the CommCell Browser, right-click the storage policy, and then click Properties.
From the Advanced tab of the Copy Properties dialog box, click the All Backups option if you want all backups to be verified during a data verification operation, or click All Full Backups if you want only full backups to be verified. You can also click the Backups On or After Date option and select a date from the Select a Date list. Only those backups that occur on or after the date you select will be verified.
Click the Expiration option to provide an expiration date for the data verification operation, and select the number of months that the data verification operation will be valid from the Verification expires after n months list.
Click OK to save the changes.

Configure a Storage Policy Copy for Data Encryption

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To configure a storage policy copy for data encryption:

From the right pane of the CommCell Browser, right-click a secondary storage policy copy, and then click Properties. Note that you cannot configure a primary storage policy copy for data encryption.
From the Advanced tab of the Copy Properties dialog box, click the Encrypt Data check box to enable options.
Select options based on the criteria described in the Advanced tab help.
Click OK to save your settings

Configure Multiple Data Paths for a Storage Policy Copy

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To configure multiple data paths for a storage policy copy:

Select the criteria under which a storage policy copy must use an alternate data path, as described in Select the Criteria for using an Alternate Data Path.
Depending on the criteria selected for using an alternate data path, you may have to share the indexes as described in Create Shared Index Cache.
Add the data paths to storage policy copies for which you wish to add multiple data paths, as described in Add a Data Path to a Storage Policy Copy.

The storage policy copy will automatically switch to an alternate data path, when the preferred data path is either offline or busy, as established in the criteria for using an alternate data path.

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 Spool Copy

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To create a spool copy:

From the right pane of the CommCell Browser, right-click the primary storage policy copy that is to be used as a spool copy, then click Properties.
From the Retention tab of the Copy Properties dialog box, click Spool Copy (No Retention).
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 Subclient-Based Storage Policy Copy

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To create a subclient based storage policy copy:

From the right pane of the CommCell Browser, right-click the appropriate secondary storage policy copy, then click Properties.
From the Associations tab of the Copy Properties dialog box, select the client(s), agents, backup set(s) or subclient(s) to be associated with this copy.
Click OK.

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.

Defer Auxiliary Copy on a Copy

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To defer Auxiliary Copy operations on this copy:

Right-click the secondary storage policy copy for which you wish to defer Auxiliary Copy operations, and then click Properties.
From the General tab of the Copy Properties dialog box, select the Defer Auxiliary Copy box, and set the number of days in which to defer the copy.
Click OK to save your changes.

Delete a Data Path from a Storage Policy Copy

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To delete a data path from a storage policy copy:

From the CommCell Browser, right-click the storage policy copy for which you wish to delete a data path, then click Properties.
Click the Data Paths tab.
Click the data path you wish to delete from the list.
Click Delete. The data path is deleted.
Click OK to save the information.

You cannot delete a data path that is set as the default data path.
You can delete a data path when the associated storage policy is reserved for data protection operations.

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 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.

Delete a Secondary Copy

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To delete a secondary copy:

From the CommCell Browser, right-click the secondary copy 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 copy is deleted and removed from the CommCell Browser.

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.

Disable a Disaster Recovery Backup From a Disaster Recovery Storage Policy Copy

Before You Begin

A job that has been disabled can still be restored/recovered.
Marking a job disabled is an irreversible operation that cannot be undone.
If a storage policy copy has a disabled job, and during a data recovery operation no data can be found, data from the disabled job will be used.
Disabling a Disaster Recovery backup causes an auxiliary copy job to skip that job when an auxiliary copy operation is run.

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To disable a Disaster Recovery backup job from a Disaster Recovery Storage Policy Copy:

From the right pane of the CommCell Browser, right-click a Disaster Recovery storage policy copy whose backups you want to view, click View and then click Backups.
From the DR Backups For Copy dialog box, right click the Disaster Recovery backup job that you want to disable, then click Disable Job.
Click Yes in the confirmation prompt that appears to disable this Disaster Recovery backup job.
The Disaster Recovery backup job is disabled.

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.

Disable/Enable a Job From a Storage Policy Copy

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To disable a job associated with a primary copy:

From the right pane of the CommCell Browser, right-click the copy whose jobs you want to disable, click View and then click Jobs.
Select the necessary filter options in the Job Filter for Storage Policy Copy dialog box.
Click the Advanced button for additional filter options in the Jobs in Storage Policy Advanced Filter Options dialog box. Click OK.
A list of jobs associated with a storage policy copy is displayed in the Jobs for Storage Policy Copy window.
Right-click on a job, and click Prevent Copy (for primary copies) or Do Not Copy (for secondary copies).
- To select multiple jobs, hold down the Ctrl key, and right click on the jobs.
Select whether you want to prevent the associated incremental jobs in the Prevent Copy dialog box.
A list of all jobs that will be disabled in addition to the job you selected are displayed in the Prevent Copy dialog box.
Click OK.
Click Yes on the Confirmation pop-up window.

To enable a job associated with a primary copy:

From the right pane of the CommCell Browser, right-click the primary copy whose jobs you want to disable, click View and then click Jobs.
Filter the necessary options in the Job Filter for Storage Policy Copy dialog box. Click OK.
A list of jobs associated with a storage policy copy is displayed in the Jobs for Storage Policy Copy window.
Right-click on a job, and click Allow Copy.
- To select multiple jobs, hold down the Ctrl key, and right click on the jobs.
Click Yes on the Confirmation pop-up window.

Disable/Enable All Jobs Associated with a Media

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To disable all jobs associated with a media:

From the right pane of the CommCell Browser, right-click the copy containing the media to which you want to disable jobs, click View and then click Media.
From the Media List dialog box, right-click on the media for which you wish to disable jobs and select Prevent Copy.
- To select multiple media items, hold down the Ctrl key, and right click on the media.
Click Yes on the Confirmation pop-up window.

To enable all jobs associated with a media:

From the right pane of the CommCell Browser, right-click the copy containing the media to which you want to enable jobs, click View and then click Media.
From the Media List dialog box, right-click on the media for which you wish to enable jobs and select Allow Copy.
- To select multiple media items, hold down the Ctrl key, and right click on the media.
Click Yes on the Confirmation pop-up window.

Create Automatic Copy Schedule

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To create an automatic copy schedule:

Right-click the storage policy associated with the secondary storage policy copy for which you wish to enable Auxiliary Copy operations, and then click Run Auxiliary Copy. To configure the copy options, refer to Start an Auxiliary Copy.
From the Job Initiation tab of the Auxiliary Copy dialog box, select Automatic Copy, and if necessary, change the Interval time in which the copy should run; the default is set to every 30 minutes.
Click OK to save your changes.

Enable or Disable Hardware Compression

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To enable or disable hardware compression:

Right-click the storage policy copy and then click Properties.
Click the Data Paths tab.
Click the data path for which you wish to change the hardware compression and then click Properties.
From the Data Path Properties dialog box, select the Hardware Compression checkbox to enable or de-select to disable hardware compression.
Click OK to save your changes.

Enable a Parallel Copy

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To enable an Parallel Copy:

Right-click the secondary storage policy copy for which you wish to enable the Parallel Copy, and then click Properties.
From the General tab of the Copy Properties dialog box, select the Enable Parallel Copy box.
Click OK to save your changes.

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 an Inline Copy

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To enable Inline Auxiliary Copy:

Right-click the secondary storage policy copy for which you wish to enable Inline Auxiliary Copy, and then click Properties.
From the General tab of the Copy Properties dialog box, select the Enable Inline Copy box.
Click OK to save your changes.

Enable Managed Disk Space for Magnetic Data

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Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To enable managed disk space for magnetic data:

Right-click the storage policy copy for which you wish to enable or disable Data Aging, and then click Properties.
From the Retention tab of the Copy Properties dialog box, select the Enable Managed Disk Space for magnetic data option and click OK.
From the Mount Paths tab of the Library Properties dialog box, set the start and stop data aging disk capacity thresholds in the Start aging when data occupied on disk is n % and the Stop aging when data occupied on disk is n % boxes, and click OK to save changes.

Manually Retain a Job on a Storage Policy Copy

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To manually retain a job on a storage policy copy:

From the CommCell Console, data protection operations can be manually retained. However, if necessary, the Command Line Interface jobretention qoperation can be used to manually retain any type of data protection operation for all agent types.

From the right pane of the CommCell Browser, right-click the storage policy copy whose jobs you want to manually retain, click View and then click Jobs.
Filter the necessary options in the Job Filter for Storage Policy Copy dialog box. Click OK.
A list of jobs associated with this storage policy copy are displayed in the Jobs for Storage Policy Copy window.
Right-click the appropriate job, then click Retain Job.
- To select multiple jobs, hold down the Ctrl key, and right click on the jobs.
Specify the retention end time in the Manual Retention End Time for Job dialog box.
The status for the job is then displayed in the Manual Retention End Time field in the Jobs for Storage Policy Copy window.
Click OK.
If you want this job to be pruned during data aging, right-click the same job, then click Change Retention.
- To select multiple jobs, hold down the Ctrl key, and right click on the jobs.
Select Do Not Retain Job in the Manual Retention End Time for Job dialog box.

Mark a Storage Policy Copy Inactive

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To mark a copy inactive:

From the right pane of the CommCell Browser, right-click the storage policy copy for which you wish to change the active settings and then click Properties.
From the General tab of the Copy Properties dialog box, de-select the Active checkbox.
Click OK to save your changes.

Mark the Active Media of a Storage Policy Copy Full

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To mark the active media of a storage policy copy full:

From the CommCell Browser, right-click the storage policy copy that you want mark the active media full, click All Tasks, and then click Mark Active Media Full.
Click Yes to the confirmation message.
The active media is full.

Pick a Job on a Storage Policy Copy for Data Verification

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To select a job for data verification:

From the right pane of the CommCell Browser, select a storage policy, then right click the storage policy copy whose job(s) you want to pick for data verification, click View and then click Jobs.
Filter the necessary options in the Job Filter for Storage Policy Copy dialog box. Click OK.
From the Jobs for Storage Policy Copy window, right-click a job, then click Pick for Data Verification. If you then decide that you do not want this job to be verified during a data verification operation, right-click the backup and click Do Not Verify Data.
Click Close.

Promote a Synchronous Copy to be a Primary Copy

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To promote a synchronous copy to be the primary copy:

From the right pane of the CommCell Browser, right-click the secondary copy that you want to promote and then click Properties.
From the General tab of the Copy Properties dialog box, select the Primary Copy checkbox, and click OK.
Click Yes to the confirmation prompt that appears.
The selected copy is promoted to be the primary copy for the storage policy.

Prune a Disaster Recovery Backup From a Disaster Recovery Backup Storage Policy Copy

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To prune a Disaster Recovery backup from a Disaster Recovery Backup storage policy copy:

From the right pane of the CommCell Browser, right-click a Disaster Recovery Backup storage policy copy whose backups you want to view, click View and then click Jobs.
From the DR Backups For Copy dialog box, right click the Disaster Recovery backup job that you want to prune, then click Prune Job.
Click Yes on the Confirmation pop-up that appears.
The Disaster Recovery backup job is pruned.

Delete a Job

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To prune a job from a storage policy copy:

From the right pane of the CommCell Browser, right-click the storage policy copy whose jobs you want to view, click View and then click Jobs.
Filter the necessary options in the Job Filter for Storage Policy Copy dialog box. Click OK.
A list of jobs associated with a storage policy copy is displayed in the Jobs for Storage Policy Copy window.
Right-click on a job and select Delete Job. A list of all jobs that will be pruned in addition to the job you selected are displayed in the Delete Job dialog box.
- To select multiple jobs, hold down the Ctrl key, and right click on the jobs.
Click OK.
Click Yes on the Confirmation pop-up window that appears.

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.

Select the Criteria for using an Alternate Data Path

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To select the criteria for using an alternate data path for a storage policy copy:

From the CommCell Browser, right-click the storage policy copy for which you select the criteria for using an alternate data path, then click Properties.
Click the Data Path configuration tab.
Select the Automatically add datapaths for existing library option, if you are using shared libraries.
Choose from the following options:
Choose the Use Alternate Data Paths only when option to indicate that alternate data paths must be used only when resources are busy and/or resources are offline. If you wish to choose this option, and wish to use some or all available resources in the CommCell, you must first share the index cache as described in Create Shared Index Cache.
- Select the When Resources are Offline checkbox, to indicate that the storage policy copy must use an alternate data path, when resources are offline.
  Resources are MediaAgent, Library, Master Drive Pool, Drive Pool, Drives in the drive pool and spare media in the scratch pool associated with this data path.
  - Select Immediately to use an alternate data path at once, when resources are offline.
  - Select After and type the minimum number of hours and minutes after which an alternate data path must be used when resources are offline
- Select the When Resources are Busy checkbox, to indicate that the storage policy copy must use an alternate data path when resources are busy.
  Resources are all the drives in the library attached to the preferred MediaAgent.
  - Select Immediately to use an alternate data path at once, when resources are busy.
  - Select After and type the number of hours and minutes after which an alternate data path must be used, when resources are busy.
Choose the Round-Robin between Data Paths option to automatically fail over between all the available data paths. If you wish to choose this option, you must first share the index cache as described in Create Shared Index Cache.

Choose the Use preferred datapath option to automatically perform LAN-free backups, wherever possible.
You can now add the appropriate data paths as described in Add a Data Path to a Storage Policy Copy.

Set a Data Path as the Default Data Path

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To set a data path as the default data path from a storage policy copy:

From the CommCell Browser, right-click the storage policy copy for which you wish to set as the preferred data path, then click Properties.
Click the Data Paths tab.
Click the data path you wish to set as the preferred data path from the list.
Click Set Default.
The data path is set as the default data path. Notice the tick mark in the icon displayed in the Status column.
Click OK to save the information.

Specify the Source Copy for an Auxiliary Copy Operation

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To specify the source copy from which data will be copied to this copy during an auxiliary copy operation:

From the right pane of the CommCell Browser, right-click the storage policy copy for which you wish to specify the source copy, and then click Properties.
From the Copy Policy tab of the Copy Properties dialog box, select a source copy from the Specify Source for Auxiliary Copy list box.
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 Aged Jobs of a Storage Policy Copy

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To view the aged jobs of a storage policy copy:

From the right pane of the CommCell Browser, right-click the storage policy copy whose aged backups you want to view, click View and then click Jobs.
Filter the necessary options in the Job Filter for Storage Policy Copy dialog box.
Click the Advanced button, and select the Include Aged Jobs or Show only Aged Jobs options.
Click OK.
The Job for Storage Policy Copy window that appears displays the jobs that were pruned from the selected storage policy copy as dimmed.
Click Close.

View the Aged Media of a Storage Policy Copy

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To view the aged media associated with a storage policy copy:

From the right pane of the CommCell Browser, right-click the copy whose aged media you want to view, click View and then click Aged Media.
The Media List dialog box displays information about media that contains data that was pruned from the selected storage policy copy.
Click Close.

View the Events of a Job on a Storage Policy Copy

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To view the events of a job on a storage policy copy:

From the right pane of the CommCell Browser, select a storage policy, then right click the storage policy copy whose jobs you want to view, click View and then select Jobs.
If you are viewing jobs for a storage policy copy used by iDataAgents and/or DataArchiver Agents, filter the necessary options in the Job Filter for Storage Policy Copy dialog box. Click OK. If you are viewing jobs for a DR Backup storage policy, then skip to the next step.
A list of jobs associated with the storage policy copy is displayed in the Jobs for Storage Policy Copy window or the DR Backups For Copy window.
Right click the job you want to view, then select View Events. The All Found Events window is displayed. Use this window to view all of the events associated with this particular job.
Click OK.
Click Close.

View the Items That Failed for a Job on a Storage Policy Copy

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To view the items that failed for a job on a copy.

From the right pane of the CommCell Browser, select a storage policy, then right click the storage policy copy whose jobs you want to view, click View and then click Job.
Filter the necessary options in the Job Filter for Storage Policy Copy dialog box. Click OK.
A list of jobs associated with the storage policy copy is displayed in the Jobs for Storage Policy Copy window.
Right click the job you want to view, then click View Failed Items.
Click OK.
Click Close.

View the Job Details of a Job on a Storage Policy Copy

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To view the job details of a job on a storage policy copy:

From the right pane of the CommCell Browser, select a storage policy, then right click the storage policy copy whose jobs you want to view, click View and then click Jobs.
If you are viewing jobs for a storage policy copy used by iDataAgents and/or DataArchiver Agents, filter the necessary options in the Job Filter for Storage Policy Copy dialog box. Click OK. If you are viewing jobs for a DR Backup storage policy, then skip to the next step.
A list of jobs associated with the storage policy copy is displayed in the Jobs for Storage Policy Copy window or the DR Backups For Copy window.
Right click the job you want to view, and then click View Job Details. The details of the job you selected is displayed.
Click OK.
Click Close.

View the Jobs of a Storage Policy Copy

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To view the jobs on a storage policy copy:

From the right pane of the CommCell Browser, right-click the storage policy copy whose data protection operations you want to view, click View and then click Jobs.
Select the necessary filter options in the Job Filter for Storage Policy Copy dialog box.
Click the Advanced button for additional filter options in the Jobs in Storage Policy Advanced Filter Options dialog box.
Click OK.
A list of jobs associated with a storage policy copy is displayed in the Jobs for Storage Policy Copy window.
Click OK.

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 the Jobs Scheduled for a Storage Policy Copy

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To view the jobs scheduled for a storage policy copy:

From the CommCell Browser, right-click the storage policy copy that you want to view the jobs scheduled for, click All Tasks, and then click Schedules.
A list of the jobs scheduled for this copy is listed in the Scheduled Jobs dialog box.
Click OK.

View the Media Not Copied

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To view the media necessary for an auxiliary copy to run from the primary copy to all secondary copies, or to a specific copy:

From the CommCell Browser, right-click a storage policy, or right-click a primary or secondary storage policy copy that you want to view the media necessary for an auxiliary copy operation, click View and then click Media Not Copied.
A list of the media necessary for the auxiliary copy operation is displayed in the Media Not Copied dialog box.
Click Close.

View the Media of a Job on a Storage Policy Copy

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To view the media of a job on a storage policy copy:

From the right pane of the CommCell Browser, select a storage policy, then right click the storage policy copy whose jobs you want to view, click View and then click Jobs.
If you are viewing jobs for a storage policy copy used by iDataAgents and/or DataArchiver Agents, filter the necessary options in the Job Filter for Storage Policy Copy dialog box. Click OK. If you are viewing jobs for a DR Backup storage policy, then skip to the next step.
A list of jobs associated with the storage policy copy is displayed in the Jobs for Storage Policy Copy window or the DR Backups For Copy window.
Right click the job you want to view, then click View Media.
- To select multiple jobs, hold down the Ctrl key, and right click on the jobs.
The Media Used By Job ID window appears.
Click OK.
Click Close.

View the Media of a Storage Policy Copy

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To view the media associated with a storage policy copy:

From the right pane of the CommCell Browser, right-click the copy whose media you want to view, click View and then click Media.
The Media List dialog box that appears displays information about media that contains data from the selected storage policy copy.
Click Close.

View the Mount Paths of a Storage Policy Copy

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To view the mount paths associated with a storage policy copy:

From the right pane of the CommCell Browser, right-click the storage policy copy whose mount paths you want to view, click View and then click Media.
The Media List dialog box that appears displays all mount paths in a magnetic library that contain valid data for the storage policy copy.
Click Close.