Tracking Policy Details

• General
• Storage Policy
• Source
• Criteria
• Destination

General

Use this dialog box to view or change the properties of a Tracking Policy.

The name of the Tracking Policy.

Use this space to add relevant information about the tracking policy.

Enable

Used to specify whether the Tracking Policy can be initiated or not.

Select this option to enable the Tracking Policy and make it available for use. Clear this option to disable the Tracking Policy.

Auto Acknowledge

Specifies whether the system must automatically acknowledge all pending media movement actions, when the media is exported from the library.

Start exporting media x minute(s) from the execution time of policy

Select this option to delay the export of media for a specified period of time following the execution time of the policy.

Abort exports if not completed within x minute(s)

Select this option to suspend the export operation if the operation has not completed within a specified period of time.

Offline Reason

Export Media

Select this option of the media does not need to be brought back to the library.

Select this option to bring back spare media which resides outside the library.

Note that the recyclable media is calculated based on the Retain for n days established in the Copy Properties that was used to write to the media. Retention cycles and Extended Retention Rules for Full Backups are not considered.

Storage Policy

Use this dialog box to select the storage policies and storage policy copies that must be used by the Tracking Policy to select the media.

Source

Use this dialog box to select the source location (library, export location, and media repository) for the Tracking Policy.

When selected, media matching the specified criteria will be moved to the virtual mail slot, when the tracking policy is run. Virtual mail slots are defined in the Library Properties (Media) dialog box.

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.

Destination

Use this dialog box to specify the destination location for the Tracking Policy.

When selected, specifies that transit location information must be tracked in the Tracking policy, and lists the transit locations entered using the Export Location Details dialog box. You can also type a new transit location in this box.

• Library

  Indicates that the destination of the tracking policy is a library and lists the libraries with removable media (tape or optical media) configured in the CommCell.

• Export

  Indicates that the destination of the tracking policy is a location and lists the stationary locations entered using the Export Location Details dialog box. You can also type a new stationary location in this box.

• Selected Container

  Click this button to choose the desired container. Note that this button will only be available if containers are configured.

• Media Repository

  Indicates that the destination of the tracking policy is a media repository and lists the media repositories.

• Return to any library

  Select this option to return media to any available library.

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