Preventing Multiple Copies of Jobs Across Copies for a Storage Policy

You can prevent the same set of backups from being copied across different time-based selective copies.

This option is valid for time-based selective copies.

Select this option to prevent the same set of backups to be copied across different selective copies.

For example:

The storage policy has the following configured:

• 1 daily copy (first full)

• 1 weekly copy (first full – week begins on Monday)

• 1 monthly copy (first full – month begins on 1st)

Full backup Job1 runs on the first day of the month, which is Monday. This job qualifies for all the 3 configurations:

• First full of the day

• First full of the week

• First full of the month

If the Prevent multiple copies of job across selective copies option is selected, then the job will go to the Monthly copy only. If the option is cleared, this job will be copied to all the selective copies.

If there are multiple copies with the same selective copy rules, then the qualifying job goes to the copy that was created first and therefore has the lowest copy ID.

Procedure

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

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

3. On the Advanced tab, select the Prevent multiple copies of job across selective copies check box.

4. Click OK.