Prevent Jobs From Being Copied

You can prevent jobs from being copied during an Auxiliary Copy operation.

About This Task

• If you prevent a job from being copied, you can still restore the job from the primary copy as long as the data on the primary copy is not pruned.

• If you prevent copy of the last backup job from a cycle, the next backup job in the cycle is forced to be a full backup.

• For Database Agents, if you disable an incremental or differential backup, all subsequent backups will be disabled up to the next full backup.

Applies To

Primary Copy, Synchronous Copy, Selective Copy, Snapshot Copy, Spool Copy, Parallel Copy, Inline Copy, Deferred Copy, and WORM Copy

Procedure

1. From the CommCell Browser, expand Policies | Storage Policies | <Storage_Policy>.

2. Right-click the appropriate storage policy copy, point to View and then Jobs.

3. In the Job Filter for Storage Policy dialog box, clear the Specify Time Range check box, click OK.

   For Primary Copy:

   1. Right-click the appropriate job, then click Prevent Copy.

      To select multiple jobs, hold down the Ctrl key and right click on the jobs.

   2. In the Prevent Copy dialog box, select whether you want the dependent jobs to be computed, and then click OK.

   3. A list of all jobs that will be prevented from being copied are displayed in the Prevent Copy dialog box, click OK.

   4. A warning message appears that asks if you want to disable all the jobs, click Yes.

   For Synchronous Copy:

   1. Right-click the appropriate job, then click Do Not Copy.

      To select multiple jobs, hold down the Ctrl key and right click on the jobs.

   2. In the Do Not Copy dialog box, select whether you want the dependent jobs to be computed, and then click OK.

   3. A list of all jobs that will be prevented from being copied are displayed in the Do Not Copy dialog box, click OK.

   4. A warning message appears that asks if you want to disable all the jobs, click Yes.