Updating Retention of a Storage Policy Copy Associated with a Global Secondary Copy Policy

You can set the retention at the global secondary copy policy level. By default, the retention set at this level will be applicable to all the associated storage policy copies. However, if you want to retain some backups jobs for a different time duration, you can configure individual retention rules on a storage policy copy that is associated with the global secondary copy policy.

You can use the XML to override the retention rules of the global secondary copy policy for a specific copy. This will enable the Retention tab for the storage policy copy where you can configure specific retention rules for the data associated with the storage policy copy.

Perform the following steps to override the retention rules of a storage policy copy:

1. Download the UpdateCopy.xml file and save it on the computer from where you will execute the command.

2. Execute the following command from the <software_installation_directory>/Base folder.

   qoperation execute -af$[download location]\UpdateCopy.xml storagePolicyName SP1 -StoragePolicyCopy/copyName Copy1 -overRideGACPRetention 1.