Additional Options

Startup Options

The Job Manager will use the startup priority setting when allocating the required resources. This is useful if you have jobs that are very important and must complete, or jobs that can be moved to a lower priority.

1. Right-click the Subclient and select Backup.

2. From the Backup Options for Subclient window, click Advanced.

3. From Startup tab, select the Default Priority option.

4. Select Change Priority option to change the priority for a job, between 0 (highest priority) and 999 (lowest priority).

5. Select Start up in Suspended State option to specify the selected job to start in the Job Controller in a suspended state.

6. Click OK.

See Job Priority and Priority Precedence for more information.

Job Retry Options

The Job Retry option helps in configuring the retry behavior of the backup jobs. You can specify the maximum elapsed time before a job can be restarted or killed and the maximum number of restart attempts.

1. Right-click the Subclient and select Backup.

2. From the Backup Options for Subclient window, click Advanced.

3. From the Job Retry tab, select the Enable Total Running Time check box and specify the maximum elapsed time in hours and minutes.

4. Select the Number Of Retries check box and specify the number of retries in the Number Of Retries box. Based on this number, the Job Manager attempts to restart the job.

5. Select the Kill Running Jobs When Total Running Time Expires check box. The job will be killed when the job is still in running status even after reaching the maximum elapsed time.

6. Click OK.

See Job Management for more information.

Start New Media

The Start New Media option helps in starting the backup/archive operation on a new media.

This media management feature provides a degree of control over where the data physically resides.

1. Right-click the Subclient and select Backup.

2. From the Backup Options for Subclient window, click Advanced.

3. From the Media tab, select the Start New Media check box.

4. Click OK.

See Creating an Exportable Media Set section of the Export Media for more information.

Another form of the Start New Media option is available from the library properties. See Start New Media section of the Library Properties for more information.

Mark Media Full

The Mark Media Full on Success option marks the Media as Full, 2 minutes after the successful completion of the backup/archive. This feature prevents any other data being written to the same media.

1. Right-click the Subclient and select Backup.

2. From the Backup Options for Subclient window, click Advanced.

3. From the Media tab, select the Mark Media Full on Success check box.

4. Click OK.

See the Create an Exportable Media Set section of the Export Media documentation for more information.

See Export Media for more information.

Allow Other Schedules To Use Media Set

The Allow Other Schedules to use Media Set option allows jobs that are part of the schedule or schedule policy and using the specific storage policy to start a new media. It also prevents other jobs from writing to the same set of media.

1. Right-click the Subclient and select Backup.

2. From the Backup Options for Subclient window, click Advanced.

3. From the Media tab, select the Allow Other Schedules To Use Media Set check box.

4. Click OK.

See the Creating an Exportable Media Set section of the Export Media for more information.

Data Path Options

Data Protection operations use a specific data path (Library, MediaAgent, Drive Pool, and Drive) to perform the backup operations as configured in the CommCell. By default, the system automatically identifies the data path for the backup operations.
The following are some of the important situations where you may need to change the data path:

• When the preferred MediaAgent, library or drive pool is not available during the backup

• When you need to use a different MediaAgent, library or drive pool for load balancing purposes.

• When you need to direct that backup to a particular location for compliance purposes.

• Right-click the Subclient and select Backup.

• From the Backup Options for Subclient window, click Advanced.

• From the Data Path tab, select Use MediaAgent and Use Library or Use Drive Pool and Use Drive from the respective drop-down combo boxes.

• Click OK.

See Change Data Path for more information.

Vault Tracker

The Vault Tracker feature allows you to manage media that are removed from a library and stored in offsite locations with the following capabilities:

• Identifies media that must be sent offsite for storage or brought back from offsite locations.

• Automatically moves the media in sequence in the library and provides a pick-up list for the operators.

• Identifies and tracks the media during transit.

• Records and tracks the movement of media that are not used by all MediaAgents or Foreign Media.

• Right-click the subclient, and then click Backup.

• In the Backup Options for Subclient dialog box, click Advanced.

• On the Vault Tracking tab, select the required options.

• Click OK.

See Vault Tracker for a comprehensive overview prior to using this feature.

Alerts

The Alert option is used for setting up the criteria to raise notifications/alerts for job statuses such as failure, success, or any other conditions triggered by the backup job. Adding alerts helps the user or the user group to get the notification automatically about the status of the backup job.

1. Right-click the Subclient and select Backup.

2. On the Backup Options for Subclient window, click Advanced.

3. On the Alert tab, click Add Alert and it opens Add Alert Wizard window.

4. From the Add Alert Wizard window, select the Threshold and Notification Criteria. Click Next.

5. Select the Notification Types. Click Next.

6. Select the Users and User Groups. Click Next.

7. Click Finish.

See Alerts and Notifications for more information.

CommCell Readiness Report

The CommCell Readiness Report provides you with vital information about the condition of your CommCell.

See CommCell Readiness Report for more information.

Backup Job Summary Report

The Backup Job Summary Report provides the details of all the backup jobs of clients.

See Backup Job Summary Report for more information.