Selective Copies

Commvault software automatically picks incremental jobs following a full backup jobs from a source copy when fulls are committed. When picking incremental jobs following committed full/selective full job, the software stops once a successfully completed incremental job is found. For example, if there are jobs committed full, incremental 1 (committed), incremental 2 (completed) and incremental 3 (completed), then full incremental 1/incremental 2 will be copied to selective copy. The source copy can be either a primary or a synchronous copy. In order to have set a selective copy as the source copy all the client associations must be identical. Selective copy facilitates better tape rotation.

You can define a selective copy as follows:

• Automatically copy incrementals following first or last full backup jobs based on automatic time-based selection such as all, weekly, monthly, quarterly, half-yearly, or yearly.

  Advanced options allows you to copy the jobs based on a frequency of number of cycles, days, weeks or months.

  For example, only the first or last full backup that occurs within the selected week, month, quarter, half-year, or year can be copied.

  For more information, see Getting Started With Selective Copies.

• Manually select the jobs to be copied during an Auxiliary Copy operation.

  For more information, see Manually Select a Job to Copy.