Storage Policy Copy Properties - How To
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General
Change the Name of a Storage Policy Copy
Combine the Data Streams of a Storage Policy Copy
Promote a Synchronous Copy to be a Primary Copy
Mark a Storage Policy Copy Inactive
Enable Inline Copy
Create Automatic Copy Schedule
Defer Auxiliary Copy on a Copy
Change the Scratch Pool Associated With a Storage Policy Copy
Associate a Custom Calendar to a Selective Copy
Retention
Change the Retention Rules of a Storage Policy Copy
Create a Spool Copy
Copy Policy
Change the Storage Policy Copy Backups on and After Date
Specify the Source Copy for an Auxiliary Copy Operation
Data Paths
Add a Data Path to a Storage Policy Copy
Configure Multiple Data Paths for a Storage Policy Copy
Set a Data Path as the Default Data Path
Delete a Data Path from a Storage Policy Copy
Selective Copy
Create a Selective Copy
Associations
Create a Subclient Based Storage Policy Copy
Media
Enable Data Multiplexing
Mark Spare Media for Media Erase Operation
Data Verification
Configure a Storage Policy Copy for Data Verification
Data Encryption
Configure a Storage Policy Copy for Data Encryption
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Associating a custom calendar to a storage policy copy changes the time
intervals by which data is copied to and aged from this 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.
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.
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.
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The All Backups
option is not available for selective copies; therefore, you must choose a
date from the
Backups On And After field.
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- Click OK to save your changes.
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.
Required Capability: See
Capabilities
and Permitted Actions
To add
a data path to a storage policy copy:
- 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.
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.
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.
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.
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- 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.
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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.
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The All Backups
option is not available for selective copies; therefore, you must choose a
date from the
Backups On And After field.
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- 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.
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.
Before You Begin
Data Multiplexing cannot be enabled on a secondary copy, a copy of a
magnetic library, or on a Disaster Recovery Backup storage policy.
Required Capability:
Capabilities and Permitted Actions
To enable data
multiplexing:
- From the CommCell Browser, right click the storage policy copy
whose storage policy you want to enable data multiplexing, then click Properties.
- From the
Media
tab of the Copy Properties dialog box, select Enable Multiplexing.
- Select the number of subclients whose data will be multiplexed to the same
media from the Multiplexing Factor list box.
- Click OK to save your changes.
Mark Spare Media for Media Erase Operation
To
mark spare media for media erase operation:
- From the CommCell Browser, right-click the storage policy copy for which
you wish to erase the associated media, and then click Properties.
- Click the Media tab.
- Click the Mark Media to be Erased After Recycling option.
- Click OK.
The information is saved.
NOTES
When this option is enabled, the recycled media from this specific storage
policy copy will be erased by the Media Erase operation.
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.
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
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