Data Aging of Specific Data (Granular Data Aging)

Several options are available for leveraging data aging jobs across a CommCell. These options reduce overhead on the CommServe computer and provides the flexibility to perform data aging operations for CommCell users (with Agent Management/Storage Management and Library Management ) of their own entities (Client, Storage Policy and so on) at times convenient for them. The following sections describe these options.

Granular data aging can be selected on the following level:

• Storage Policy Copies Level

  • Each storage policy in your CommCell is designated for specific clients (such as clients in a branch office) and you want administrators to perform data aging for only the clients in their area

  • Your CommCell contains a large number of storage policies, which may result in data aging jobs taking significant amounts of time and resources

• Libraries Level

  • Your backup jobs span multiple libraries and you only intend to age data on the copies associated to a specific library or set of libraries

    Note that if copies associated to specified libraries have additional data paths, jobs on those data paths will also get aged.

  • You have run out of media in a particular library and want to quickly free up media for new data protection jobs

• Clients Level

  • A storage policy has a large number of clients that might cause data aging jobs to take a significant amount of time and resources.

  • You have decommissioned one more client and want to age data that is associated with those clients.

To configure the granular data aging:

1. From the CommCell Browser, right-click the CommServe node, point to All Tasks and then click Data Aging.

2. On the Data Aging Options dialog box, click Advanced.

3. On the Advanced Data Aging Options dialog box, click Age Granular, specify the appropriate settings:

   1. If you need to age data in specific storage policy copies, select the Select Copies check box, click Prune Selected Copies, and then select the copies you want to age.

   2. If you need to age data in specific libraries, select the Select Copies check box, click Prune Copies Using Selected Libraries, select libraries, and then click Add.

   3. If you need to age data for specific clients, clear the Include All Client check box, select the clients under Clients Available and click Add.

4. Click OK and then click OK to close the Data Aging Options dialog box.

The data aging job runs and all data that meets the retention criteria in the selected copies or libraries or clients will be aged.