Archiving rules specify the criteria for the type of data to be archived.
Messages that meet this criteria are rendered available for
archiving if they satisfy any or all the archiving rules.
In order to perform archiving operations, you need to initially configure
archiving rules. Archiving rules specify the criteria for the type of data to be
archived. The basic archiving criteria is the maximum file size in a particular
scanned volume/directory. Files that meet this criteria are rendered available
for archiving if they satisfy any or all the archiving rules.
From the CommCell Browser, navigate to Client Computers | <Client> |
Right-click the Exchange PF Archiver, and then click
Properties.
Select the Customized Messages tab.
Under Recover is in progress (disk library), type the
desired status message to be displayed in outlook during a stub
recovery operation from a disk library.
From the CommCell Browser, navigate to Client Computers | <Client> |
Right-click the Exchange PF Archiver, and then click
Properties.
Select the Customized Messages tab.
Under Error message when media is outside the library,
type the desired status message to be displayed when a stub recovery
operation is attempted for media outside the designated library..
By default, all mailboxes are automatically assigned to the default
subclient. This default behavior is designed to ensure all public
folders are
archived.
If you do not want all public folders to automatically be included in the
default subclient, you can do so as described in the following sections.
We recommend that you do not modify
these settings. Doing so would disable the default subclient's
capability to serve as a catch-all entity for mailbox data. As a
result, some data may not get archived.
Use the following steps to select the subclient's content for archiving:
From the CommCell Browser, navigate to Client Computers | <Client> |
Exchange PF Archiver | <Archive Set>.
Right-click the Subclient, and then click
Properties.
Click the Content tab.
Click Browse to select the folders you want to archive.
There are several configurable properties available for your agent that can be
modified from the agent, archive set or subclient level as per your need.
It is recommended that that you do not modify the properties of a subclient when a job is in progress for that specific subclient. If
a job is in progress, either wait for the job to complete or kill the job from the
Job Controller.
The following table describes the properties that can be configured from the agent,
archive set and subclient levels.
Option
Description
Related topics
Change the Profile
Name
You can modify the profile that is associated with the appropriate
Administrator Mailbox.
From the CommCell Browser, navigate to Client Computes|
<Client>.
Right-click the Exchange PF Archiver, and then click Properties.
In the Profile Name box, type the profile name.
Click OK.
Change the Mailbox
Name
You can modify the name of the mailbox that is associated with the
appropriate Administrator profile.
From the CommCell Browser, navigate to Client Computes|
<Client>.
Right-click the Exchange PF Archiver, and then click Properties.
In the Mailbox Name box, type the mailbox name.
Click OK.
Change the Exchange Server
Name
You can modify the name of the Exchange Server that is installed on the
client computer. However, the Exchange
server name should not be the same as Client or Host Name.
From the CommCell Browser, navigate to Client Computes|
<Client>.
Right-click the Exchange PF Archiver, and then click
Properties.
In the Exchange Server Name box, type the Exchange Server
name.
Click OK.
Change User Account Details
You must have Exchange administrator privileges to access the Exchange Server and
perform archive and recover operations.
In the case of archive and
recover operations from the CommCell Console,
the user credentials to access the Exchange Server are provided initially
when you installed the Agent. You can modify the user credentials from CommCell
Console.
On Windows clients, use
<domain>\<administrator_name>
To change the Exchange administrator account information associated
with this agent:
From the CommCell Browser, navigate to Client Computes|
<Client>.
Right-click the Exchange PF Archiver, and then click
Properties.
Click Change Account.
In Exchange Administrator Account
box type the
Account name.
Inthe Password box, type Password
In the Confirm Password box, type the password again.
Click OK.
Rename Archive Set and Subclient
You can rename a archive set and subclient:
Renaming Archive sets:
From the CommCell Browser, navigate to Client Computes|
<Client> | Exchange PF Archiver.
Right-click the Archive set, and then click Properties.
In the Archive Set box, type the Archive set name.
Click OK.
Renaming subclients:
From the CommCell Browser, navigate to Client Computes|
<Client> | Exchange PF Archiver.
Right-click the Subclient, and then click Properties.
In the Subclient name box, type the subclient name.
Click OK.
Change Storage Policies
You can modify the
storage policies in any of the following situations:
To include a different media for the backup operation.
To use a storage policy with a different retention criteria.
You can change the storage policies from the subclient level.
From the CommCell Browser, right-click the subclient.
Click Properties.
Click Storage Device.
Select the Storage policy from the drop-down menu.
You can efficiently configure the available resources for transferring data secured
by data protection operations from the subclient level. This includes the following:
Enable or disable Data Compression either on the client or the MediaAgent.
Configure the transfer of data in the network using the options for Network
Bandwidth Throttling and Network Agents.
You can configure the data transfer options.
From the CommCell Browser,right-click the subclient.
Click Properties.
Click Storage Device.
Click Data Transfer Option tab.
Choose the appropriate software compression option for this subclient.
Select Throttle Network Bandwidth and set the required bandwidth.
You can view the data paths associated with the primary
storage policy copy of the selected storage policy or incremental storage
policy. You can also modify the data paths including their priority from
the subclient level.
From the CommCell browser, right-click the subclient.
Click Properties.
Click Storage Device.
Select Storage Policy from the drop-down menu.
Click Data Paths.
Configure a Subclient for Pre/Post Processing of Data
Protection
You can add, modify or view Pre/Post processes for the
subclient. These are batch files or shell scripts that you can run before
or after certain job phases.
From the CommCell Browser, navigate to Client Computes|
<Client> | Exchange PF Archiver | Archive
set.
Right-click the Subclient, and then click Properties.
Click the Pre/Post Process tab.
Click one of the following phases and type the full path of the
process that you want to execute during that phase. Alternatively, click
Browse to locate the process (applicable only for paths that
do not contain any spaces).
Pre-Archive
Post-Archive
Click OK.
Select Run Post-archive Process for all attempts to run a
post archive process for all attempts.
For subclients on Windows platforms, Run As displays
Not Selected.
If you want to change the account that has permission
to run these commands, click Change.
In the User Account dialog box, select Use Local System
Account, or select Impersonate User and enter the user
name and password. Click OK.
If you selected Local System Account, click OK to the
message advising you that commands using this account have rights
to access all data on the client computer.
You can configure user security from the agent or subclient
level.
You can perform the following functions:
Identify the user groups to which this CommCell object is associated.
Associate this object with a user group.
Disassociate this object from a user group.
From the CommCell browser, right-click the subclient.
Click Properties.
Click Security.
Select the appropriate user groups to
which you want to associate to the CommCell object from the Available
Groups pane, and then move the user group to the Associated Groups
pane.
You can enable data encryption from the suclient level.Encryption must be enabled at the client level prior to configuring any
instances residing on that client.
From the CommCell browser, right-click the subclient.
The Version tab, at the Agent level displays the
software version of
the component.
From the CommCell browser, right-click the agent.
Click Properties.
Click Version.
Click OK.
CommCell Configuration Report
The CommCell Configuration Report provides the properties of the
CommServe, MediaAgents, clients, agents, SRM agents, subclients, and
storage policies within the CommCell based on the selected filter
criteria.
The following sections describe the steps involved in deleting an agent,
archive set or subclient.
When you delete an instance or archiveset,
the associated data is logically deleted and you can no longer access the
corresponding data from CommCell Console for recovery purposes.
You need to uninstall or DeConfigure the agent software from the client
computer before deleting from CommCell Browser. After you delete the client software, you can either leave the corresponding
data
intact for appropriate action or you can remove the data immediately. If you choose
to remove the data immediately, you must delete the agent from the CommCell
Browser. If you delete the agent, all of the agent's data is irretrievably
lost.
You cannot delete an agent while operations for that agent are
running.
From the CommCell Browser, navigate to Client Computers | <Client>.
Right-click the <Agent>, and then click Delete.
A confirmation message is displayed with the following message:
This operation will permanently delete the data
archived from this level and it cannot be restored.
Click OK to continue with the deletion operation., or click No to
abort the deletion.
The
Exchange Public Folder iDataAgent
uses the following logical entities to manage archiving and recovery operations from the CommCell Console.
