Beginning in Innovation Release 11.38, Commvault now includes index backups when you run full or synthetic full backups for Virtual Server Agents (VSA). Although this feature is applicable to newly created VSA clients only, you can enable the feature on existing clients.
This feature ensures that the index backup is stored on the same media as the regular backup, which helps expedite data reconstruction in disaster recovery scenarios. Additionally, this feature promotes efficient tape utilization by allowing faster aging of index backups that lie outside the backup media and which are not needed for the data aging cycle.
Note
Enabling this feature might increase the time it takes to complete a full or synthetic full backup, since the index must be replayed in the index database before the backup of the index itself can begin.
Procedures
New CommServe Server Installations
Beginning in Innovation Release 11.38, this feature is enabled by default for new CommServe server installations.
Enabling the Feature for Existing CommServe Servers
You can enable this feature for existing CommServe servers that are running Feature Release 11.26 and later releases.
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To the CommServe server, add the BackupIndexWithFull additional setting with the following values:
For information about adding the additional setting from the CommCell Console, see Adding a CommCell Setting.
Property
Value
Name
Category
CommServDB.GxGlobalParam
Type
Boolean
Value
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0 - Disabled
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1 - Enabled
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New VSA Clients
Beginning in Innovation Release 11.38, this feature is enabled by default for new VSA clients.
Enabling the Feature for Existing VSA Clients
You can enable this feature for existing VSA clients that are running Innovation Release 11.38 and later releases.
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Run the Enable Subclient Index workflow on VSA clients or client groups to convert the VSA clients to subclient level indexing.
For more information, see Using the Enable Subclient Index Workflow.