You can declare disaster for DR backups and stop them from aging to ensure that the backup sets are available during a disaster. When you declare disaster, Commvault retains DR backups for additional 3 days.
Note
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You must have unused manual retentions available.
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You can declare disaster only if you have a valid subscription.
Procedure
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Log on to the Commvault Cloud Command Center.
The Readiness & Resilience page appears.
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In the upper-right corner of the page, click the down arrow beside the CommCell name, and then search and select the CommCell that you want to recover.
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In the Control plane tile, click Start recovery test.
The CommServe details page appears.
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In the Backup Sets table, click Declare Disaster.
The Declare disaster dialog box appears.
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Click Submit.