Designating a Time Zone for a Storage Policy

Storage policies, and all subsequent storage policy copies, automatically inherit the CommServe's defined time zone. If your environment has a storage policy for clients in a different time zone than the CommServe, you should define a specific time zone for the storage policy.

You can designate the following time zones for a storage policy; they are:

• CommServe's Time Zone (default setting)

• Client Computers' Time Zones

• Storage Policy Time Zone

Data aging operations prune data according to the time zone of the associated storage policy. Changing the time zone can cause a data aging job to prune data at an earlier or later time.

For example: A storage policy's designated time zone is defined as Eastern Standard Time (US and Canada), and several backup jobs are set to be pruned on October 31st. If the storage policy's time zone is changed to Eastern Standard Time (Australia), the jobs will still be pruned on October 31st. However, they will be pruned a day earlier.

Procedure

1. From the CommCell Browser, expand Policies | Storage Policies.

2. Right-click the appropriate storage policy and then click Properties.

3. Click the Advanced tab.

4. Select a time zone from the Time Zone list.

5. Click OK.