Adding a Selective Storage Copy

You can create a selective storage copy for a plan.

In a selective storage copy, specific full backup jobs are copied from a source copy. The source copy can be either a primary copy or a secondary copy. Using a selective copy, you can setup to copy first or last full backup jobs based on automatic time-based selection such as all, weekly, monthly, quarterly, half-yearly, or yearly full backups. For example, only the first or last full backup that occurs within the selected week, month, quarter, half-year, or year can be copied.

An auxiliary copy operation must be performed to replicate the data to the secondary copy.

Procedure

1. From the navigation pane, go to Manage > Plans.

   The Plans page appears.

2. From the Plans list, click the plan that you want to add a storage copy.

   The Overview page of the plan appears.

3. Click the Backup destinations tab.

   The Regions page appears.

4. Expand the region you want to add the copy for.

   The Backup destinations tile opens.

5. Click Add in the top right, and then click Copy.

   The Add copy window appears.

6. In the Name box, enter a name for the storage copy.

7. From the Storage list, select the storage to use for the backups.

   Note

   • The block size of the selected storage should be the same as the block size of the source storage. For recommendation on block sizes, see Deduplication Building Block Guide.

   • If you select a WORM lock enabled storage, retention of the storage is applicable.

8. From the Source list, select the source copy.

9. From the Backups to copy list, select an appropriate option.

10. To specify the start time for backups on a specific date and later, for What start date should we copy these backup types from?, select Specify a date from when to retain copies, and then select a date.

11. For options with time frequency, for Backup types to copy, select either First full backup or Last full backup.

    By default, the software copies the last full backup job in the selected time frequency.

12. For Retention period, select a period of time to retain the data.

13. To add a rule to retain backups beyond the retention period, move the Extended Retention rules toggle key to the right, and then select a rule type and a period of time.

14. Click Save.

Result

The newly defined storage copy appears in the Backup destinations tile under the region.