Criteria

Use this dialog box to specify the criteria used by the Tracking Policy to select media.

Provides a list of media available in the library/location.

• All

  Click to select all media. Clear this option to select cleaning media or media with a specific status in the tracking policy.

• Overwrite Protected

  Click to select media that is protected from overwrite.

• Cleaning

  Click to select cleaning media. This check box will be unavailable when a storage policy is selected in the Tracking policy.

• Aged

  Click to select media that has been aged and recycled by Data Aging operation.

• Full

  Click to select media with its status marked as full.

• Bad

  Click to select media with its status marked as bad.

• Appendable

  Click to select media with its status marked as appendable.

• Foreign

  Click to select media not used by the MediaAgents in the CommCell and residing in the Foreign Media Pool.

• Spare

  Click to select spare media. This check box will be unavailable when a storage policy is selected in the Tracking policy.

• Retired

  Click to select retired media. This check box will be unavailable when a storage policy is selected in the Tracking policy.

• Active

  Click to select media with its status marked as active.

• Since

  Specifies the action that must be used to calculate the age of the media, specified in the Older than option and lists the available choices. Click the down arrow to scroll the list, and then click the action you want.

• Older than

  When selected, media older than the specified days are included in the Tracking Policy.

• By Time

  When selected, media satisfying the selected Media Status options are included in the Tracking Policy.

When selected, allows you to specify the number of media (matching the specified criteria) that should be included in the Tracking policy. Additionally, you can choose to free a specified amount of space from each source library.

When selected, allows you to exclude media with jobs that have to be copied.

Specifies that the system must automatically filter media based on whether the media has extended retention jobs or not.

• Media with extended retention job(s)

  Specifies that media with at least one extended retention job will be exported.

• Media with no extended retention job(s)

  Specifies that media with no extended retention jobs will be exported.