Creating a Disaster Recovery Backup Storage Policy

A default Disaster Recovery Backup storage policy, CommServeDR, is automatically created when the first library in the CommCell is configured. It writes the Disaster Recovery Backup data to the media, and its default retention period is defined as 15 days and 15 cycles.

If necessary, you can create additional Disaster Recovery Backup storage policies to customize the DR policy to the requirements in your environment.

The primary copy of the DR storage policy is created as a WORM (Write Once Read Many) copy, to prevent accidental deletion of jobs that is not qualified for aging. The expiration date for the read-only is set to match the data retention time established in the storage policy copy. The jobs associated with the policy cannot be deleted by any user or application until the specified retention date. Once the retention expires, the system deletes the jobs as part of Data Aging. WORM copy option cannot be cleared in the copy, and the data retention on the WORM copy can be increased but cannot be lowered.

Procedure

1. From the CommCell Browser, expand Policies.

2. Right-click Storage Policies, and then click New Storage Policy.

3. Select CommServe Disaster Recovery Backup.

4. Click Next and follow the instructions in the Create Storage Policy page.