List Media (Media Prediction) - How To

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List Media for a Subclient

List Media for a Backup Set or Instance

List Media Associated with Index

List Media and Size for Specific Files and/or Folders

List Media for specific Jobs

List Media for a Subclient

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To list media for a subclient:

1. From the CommCell Browser, right-click the subclient for which you wish to list media and then click List Media.
2. From the List Media dialog box choose one of the following options:
   • Click Media For the Latest Data to list media associated with the most recent data protection cycle.
   • Click Specify Time Range to list media associated with data protection operations up to the specified date and time range.

     Use the Data Before box to specify the end date and time.

   • Click Advanced and then click Exclude Data Before to list media associated with data protection operations after the specified date and time.

   Note that you can use the Specify Browse Time and Exclude Data Before options to list media between a specified date and time range.

3. Click OK.

   The appropriate media is listed in the Media dialog box.

List Media for a Backup Set or Instance

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To list media for a backup set or instance:

1. From the CommCell Browser, right-click the backup set or instance for which you wish to list media, click All Tasks and then click Browse.
2. From the Browse Options dialog box, if required, select the following options:
   • Click Browse the Latest Data to list media associated with the most recent data protection cycle.
   • Click Specify Browse Time to list media associated with data protection operations up to the specified date and time range.
     Use the Browse Data Before box to specify the end date and time.
   • Click Advanced and then click Exclude Data Before and then select the date and time from which you wish to list media associated with data protection operations.

   Note that you can use the Specify Browse Time and Exclude Data Before options to list media between a specified date and time range.

3. Click List Media.
4. From the List Media dialog box, click List Media for restore within specified time range and click OK.

   The appropriate media is listed in the Media dialog box.

List Media Associated with Index

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To list media associated with Index:

1. From the CommCell Browser, right-click the backup set or instance for which you wish to list media, click All Tasks and then click Browse.
2. From the Browse Options dialog box, if required, select the following options:
   • Click Browse the Latest Data to list media associated with the most recent data protection cycle.
   • Click Specify Browse Time to list media associated with data protection operations up to the specified date and time range.
     Use the Browse Data Before box to specify the end date and time.
   • Click Advanced and then click Exclude Data Before and then select the date and time from which you wish to list media associated with data protection operations. Select the Include Metadata option if you wish to include media containing metadata information.

   Note that you can use the Specify Time Range and Exclude Data Before options to list media between a specified date and time range.

3. Click List Media.
4. From the List Media dialog box, click List Media containing index required for browse and click OK.

   The appropriate media is listed in the Media dialog box.
   Note that this dialog box, by default, only lists media when the index is not available in the index cache. Select the Show all media containing index option to view information on whether the index is available in the index cache.

List Media and Size for Specific Files and/or Folders

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To list media for specific files and/or folders:

1. From the CommCell Browser, right-click the backup set or instance for which you wish to list media, click All Tasks and then click Browse.
2. Select the appropriate options for browsing data from the Browse Options and Advanced Browse Options dialog box and then click OK.
3. From the browse window, depending on your requirement, perform any one of the following:
   • Expand the tree and select the file and or folders that you wish to restore and then click List Media.
   • If you wish to search and restore a specific file or specific set of files, use the Find option as described in Find a File/Directory/Object.
     The results are displayed in the lower pane of the Find window.
     Right-click the desired file or folder and then choose List Media.
   • If you wish to restore a specific version(s) of a file, use the View All Versions option as described in Browse and Restore File Versions.
     The results are displayed in the File Version Restore / All Versions dialog box.
     Right-click the desired version of the file and then choose List Media.
4. From the List Media dialog box, choose one of the following options:
   • Choose the Immediate option, to immediately display the media list in the Media dialog box.
   • Choose the Schedule option, to schedule the list media operation and then type (or browse and select) the file name (including the path) in which the results from the scheduled operation must be saved in the Result file location on CommServe box.

     Click Configure to select the appropriate schedule from the Schedule Details dialog box. Click Options to provide advanced scheduling options. Click OK. The results of the scheduled operation are stored in the specified file.

5. If necessary, you can configure an alert for the operation. Click Advanced to provide the alert details and click OK.
6. The List Media results provide a list of associated  media and, detailed media and data information including the total space required (on destination disk) to restore selected data. The results from an immediate run are displayed on Media dialog box and Media Prediction report, however the scheduled results are available only in Media Prediction report located under AlertAttachments folder in the installation directory.

List Media for specific Jobs

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To list media for specific jobs:

1. Right-click the backup set for which you wish to list media, click All Tasks and then click Restore by Jobs.
2. If necessary, select the necessary options in the Restore by Jobs filter dialog box. Click OK.
3. In the Backup Job History dialog box, right-click the job for which you wish to list media and then click Restore.
4. In the General tab of the Restore Options dialog box, click List Media.

   The appropriate media is listed in the Media dialog box.

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