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.
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.
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.
You can set the time interval
between 15 to 1440 minutes.
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 disk data. This is only
enabled when copy points to disk 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.
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.
The All Backups
option is not available for selective copies; therefore, you must choose a
date from the
Backups On And After field.
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.
Before specifying the source copy, in the
Association tab, make sure that the both the storage policy copies
have same CommCell entities (clients or subclient etc.,) associated or
this copy has a fewer CommCell entities associated than the source 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.
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.
Deselect the Active check box if you want to specify that this
should be an inactive copy.
Select the library, MediaAgent, drive pool, and the scratch pool from the
lists (drive pool and scratch pool are not applicable to disk 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 disk 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 a 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.
The All Backups option is not available
for selective copies; therefore, you must choose a date from the
Backups On And After field.
Select Automatically select Full Backups (all
fulls) to automatically copy all full backups regardless of time.
Select Automatically select Full Backups (daily,
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 Automatically select Full Backups (Advanced)
to copy all full backups based on the advanced backup frequency options.
Select Every [x] Cycle(s), to copy full backup after the
specified number of cycles.
Select Every [x] Day(s), to copy full backup after the specified
number of days.
Select Every [x] Week(s), to copy full backup after the specified
number of weeks.
Select Every [x] Month(s), to copy full backup after the
specified number of months.
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.
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.
When you re-associate a client/subclient to
a storage policy copy, only new jobs of the selected
client/subclient are copied to a storage policy copy during an
Auxiliary copy operation.
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 aftern months list.
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.
To change
the name of a storage policy copy: