Subclient-Based Storage Policy Copy

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Overview

Overview

You can select a specific client, agent, backupset/instance or subclient to be associated with a storage policy copy. Once selected, only new backup jobs of the entities chosen will be copied to the storage policy copy during an Auxiliary Copy operation.

Create a Subclient-Based Storage Policy Copy

Use the following steps to associate commcell entities to the storage policy copy:

For example, SP_Tape_Library1_1 has three subclients assigned to it, client_data_1, client_data_2, and client_data_3, as displayed in the Associations tab of the Copy Properties dialog box.

  1. From the CommCell Browser, navigate to Policies | Storage Policies | <Storage_Policy>.
  2. Right-click the <Storage Policy Copy> and click Properties.
  3. Click the Associations tab. It displays all the clients associated to the storage policy.
  4. By default, Client Computers box and all clients are selected. To select:
    • Specific client, clear the Client Computer box and then select the <Client> from which the data should be copied.
        Once selected, any new entity (agent or backupset/instance or subclient) for the selected client will automatically get associated to the storage policy copy.
    • Agent, clear the Client Computer box, expand <Client> and select <Agent>.
    • Backupset/instance for a specific client, clear the Client Computer box, expand <Client> select backupset/instance.
    • Specific subclient, clear the Client Computer box, expand <Client>|<Agent>|<Backupset/Instance> and then select subclient.
        Once selected, any new subclients created under the client will not automatically get assigned to this storage policy copy. You have to manually select the subclient to copy the data.
  5. You can select multiple subclients, backupsets or clients.
  6. Click OK.
      The selected node will be highlighted with solid icon and the node under the selected entity will be highlighted with an arrow icon in the box.

Start an Auxiliary Copy

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To start an auxiliary copy:

  1. From the CommCell Browser, right-click the storage policy for which you want to perform an auxiliary copy, click All Tasks, and then click Run Auxiliary Copy.
  2. In the Auxiliary Copy dialog box, the Storage Policy field is already populated with the name of the Storage Policy you selected.
  3. If the source copy is configured with a shared library, select the Source MediaAgent for the auxiliary copy.
  4. Select All Copies to copy data from the source copy to all secondary copies defined, or select a copy from the Select a Copy list box.
  5. Select Start new media to copy the data to a different tape or optical media. On a  disk, this option, when selected, creates a new volume folder for the operation.
  6. Select the number of streams to copy in parallel from the Number of Streams to Copy in Parallel pane, or select Allow Maximum.
  7. Select Mark media full after successful operation to mark the media that is used for this operation full after the auxiliary copy operation has successfully completed.
  8. Select Select Most Recent Full Backup When Auxiliary Copy Starts to have the most recent successful full backup for each subclient copied when the Auxiliary Copy job is run.
  9. From the Job Initiation tab on the Auxiliary Copy dialog box, select the time for this job to run or choose to Run Immediately. You can also configure an alert for this job.
  10. Click Advanced to configure the Vault Tracker, Startup and Job Retry options.
    • Click Vault Tracking to select additional Vault Tracker options for this operation from the Vault Tracking dialog box.

      Note: This option is only available if a Vault Tracker license is available in the CommServe.

    • Click Startup to change the priority of this job and, if necessary, to start this job in a suspended state from the Startup dialog box.
    • Click the Job Retry tab to specify the job running time and the number of job retries. See Restarting Jobs and Job Running Time for more information.
      note.gif (292 bytes) The Number of Retries specified for this particular job will only be used by the system if Auxiliary Copy was configured as a Restartable job type in the Job Management Control Panel. For procedures, see Specify Job Restartability for the CommCell.
  11. Click OK to start the auxiliary copy operation. A progress bar displays the progress of the operation.
  

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