Enabling Spool Copy

Spool copy can be enabled on a copy.

Applies To

Synchronous Copy, Selective Copy, Inline Copy, Parallel Copy, Snapshot Copy and WORM Copy.

Before You Begin

Consider the following before enabling a spool copy:

• A primary copy or secondary copy can be defined as a spool copy only when there is an active synchronous copy for the storage policy.

• Spool Copy feature is not supported on storage policy copies enabled with Deduplication or Silo Storage.

• The DDB backup jobs ignore the spool copy retention rules, and follows the DDB backup pruning. See DDB Backup Pruning Process for more information.

• For NAS data backed up using IntelliSnap backup:

  • One snapshot is retained when the primary snap copy is configured with spool retention.

    • For NetApp and Isilon NDMP agents.

    • For NetApp, Isilon and Huawei FS under NAS agents.

  • Other agents have the retention rule set to 0 days and 0 cycles.

Procedure

1. Before enabling spool copy option on a storage policy copy, ensure that the storage policy copy is assigned as a source to another active synchronous copy.

   See Specify the Source for the Copy for instructions.

2. From the CommCell Browser, go to Policies > Storage Policies ><Storage Policy>.

3. Right-click the storage policy copy that was assigned as a source, and click Properties.

4. In the Copy Properties dialog box, click the Retention tab, click Spool Copy (No Retention), and then click OK.

   A message appears that tells you that enabling spool copy will age data as soon as the Auxiliary Copy job is run.

5. Click Yes to continue.