Reference Copy - Online Help

Create Reference Copy Client

Use this dialog box to create a placeholder client for reference copy. A placeholder client is one that exists logically, not physically, for the purpose of creating reference copies.

You can create a placeholder client for either File System-based or Exchange-based agents.

Client Name

Enter a name for the placeholder client that will be used for reference copy. The name cannot contain spaces.

Configure Agents

Select the Agents you want the placeholder client to hold:

• For File System, you may select UNIX File System or Windows File System.

• For Exchange, you may select Exchange Compliance Archiver or Exchange Mailbox (Classic).

Reference Copy Contents (Content)

Use this dialog box to manage the options for selecting content to include in the reference copy subclient. The system provides several filtering options for specifying the subclient content, these options influence the behavior of the subclient content in the subsequent backup operations. These settings will only impact supported agents residing on the client.

Backup Start Time

Allows entering a time from which the backed up data satisfying the applied filters will be used.

Backup End Time

Allows selecting and entering a time up to which the backed up data satisfying the applied filters will be used.

Add

Allows creating a filter (for filtering the backed up data of other clients) which will be used as subclient content for the reference copy.

Content Name

Allows specifying a name for the filter.

Content Criteria

Click More to select the available filters that will be applied to the backups from other clients.

File System Filters

File name

Enables viewing files with specified name pattern, e.g. *.htm.

Stubbed Object (Reference Copy Subclient)

Enables you to copy archived files from the source subclient.

Deleted Object (Reference Copy Subclient)

Enables you to copy deleted files from the source subclient.

Modified Date

Enables viewing the file as per specified modification date.

This allows you to specify the Start Time and/or End Time of the backup job that ran on the associated client/client group.

File Size

Enables filtering files based on a specific size range in KB, MB or GB.

The following operators can be used to specify the file size:

• greater than

• less than

• greater than equal to

• less than equal to

Contains

Enables filtering content with specific wordings. The results differ with different combinations of backup and content indexing jobs that ran on the client.

• If Content Indexing is enabled and at least one Content Indexing jobs has been run after the last backups job, this filter retrieves more precise results as the results are retrieved from the content indexed data.

• If Content Indexing is enabled and other filters are used along with this filter, the results are retrieved from the combination of what got backed up and content indexed.

• If Content Indexing is not enabled, this filter works like File Name filter.

• If Content Indexing is not enabled and both Contains and File Name filters are used, then the Contains filter is ignored.

Exchange Mailbox Filters

From

Back up messages sent from specific senders by entering one or more complete email addresses. Supports the "AND" and "OR" operators between multiple addresses.

To

Back up messages sent to specific recipients by entering one or more complete email addresses. Supports the "AND" and "OR" operators between multiple addresses.

Subject

Back up messages sent with a specific subject by entering one or more subjects here. Supports the "AND" and "OR" operators between multiple subjects.

Importance

Back up messages by their level of importance. Select one of these:

• High

• Normal

• Low

Mail Size

Back up messages by their size. Operators supports:

• greater than

• less than

• greater than equal to

• less than equal to

Time

Back up messages according to their date received. Values supported:

• Today

• Yesterday

• This Week

• This Month

• This Year

• Last Week

• Last Month

• Last Year

• Last 2 Years

• Last 5 Years

Has Attachments

Filters for messages that include or exclude attachments.

• Select the Has Attachments option to back up mails with attachments.

• Clear the Has Attachments option to back up mails without attachments.

Folder Path

Back up messages from a specific folder on the mailbox. Enter one or more Folderpath values. Supports the "AND" and "OR" operators between multiple paths.

Attachment Name

Back up messages that include attachments having the name you enter here.

Categories

Back up messages having a category specified within the mailbox.

Contains

Back up only messages that include the content you specify here.

This filter's behavior depends on whether the Content Indexing Engine is installed and a Content Indexing job has been run after the last backup job.

• If Content Indexing is not enabled, results display filtered by Subject, To and From.

• If Content Indexing is enabled on the client and at least one job is Content Indexed, the results are displayed from Content Indexed data filtered by To, From, message Body, Subject, and attachment file name.

Supports the "AND" and "OR" operators between multiple filter values.

Reference Copy Contents (Association)

Use this dialog box to add association for the subclient content of a reference copy. This allows selecting multiple clients/client computer groups whose backed up data will be used as subclient content for the reference copy.

Client computer groups

Allows selecting a client computer gGroup whose backup data will be used as subclient content for the reference copy subclient.

Client computers

Allows selecting one or more clients whose backup data will be used as subclient content for the reference copy subclient.

You can also select one or more client entities like Agent, Backup Set, or Subclients to specify subclient content.

Reference Copy Contents (Preview)

Use this dialog box to preview the content association of the reference copy subclient.

Backup Start Time

Displays the backup start time selection made in the Contents tab.

Backup End Time

Displays the backup end time selection made in the Contents tab.

TimeZone

Displays the backup time time zone selected in the Contents tab.

Filter(s)

Displays the filters applied to backed up content from other clients using the Contents tab.

View Items

Display the data that will be backed up by using the associated clients or client groups.

Reference Copy (Retention)

Use this tab to configure retention of reference copy backups. You can use this tab to prune objects from archives based on the retention settings specified here.

The number of days of retention specified here will be applied to each object during synthetic full jobs. The items that are not aged are carried forward to the next cycle.

Retain Indefinitely

Select this checkbox if you want to retain the deleted files on the secondary storage forever.

Older than n days based on modified time from latest cycle

Select this checkbox, and then enter a value. Backed up files with modification time specified here will be pruned at the subsequent synthetic full job.

Older than n days based on reference copy time from latest cycle

Select this checkbox, and then enter a value. Backed up files with reference copy time specified here will be pruned at the subsequent synthetic full job.