Discover and Assign New Data Types

Over time, new items are created to accommodate new data. By default, a subclient performs a discovery process at the beginning of each backup. The auto discovery process detects any new data types and automatically assigns them to the default subclient.

While this feature ensures that all the new data types will be automatically backed up as part of the default subclient, you may want to assign the new data types to specific subclients. To do this, you can conduct the discovery process and assign the data types yourself.

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To discover and assign new data types:

  1. From the CommCell Browser, right-click the iDataAgent for which you want to discover new data types, click All Tasks and then click Configure. Alternatively, you can perform this using the Configure button on the Subclient Properties (Content) tab.
  2. From the Add/Modify Subclients dialog box, click the Discover button.
  3. When the discovery process completes, the Add/Modify Subclients dialog box is redisplayed. The dialog box displays the data types that have already been assigned plus any newly discovered data types that have not been assigned. The unassigned data types are those that have no entry in the Subclient column.
  4. To assign these data types, click the Subclient field of each data type that you want to assign and select the desired subclient from the list. Alternatively, you can select and assign a range of data types to a single subclient using the Change all selected data types to list.

    Regardless of the assignment method, your choices always include:

  5. To register your data type assignments with the system, click Apply.
  6. If you have no other data types to assign, click OK.