Schedule an Auxiliary Copy

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions To schedule an auxiliary copy: 1. From the CommCell Browser, right-click the storage policy for which you want to perform an auxiliary copy, click All Tasks, and then clickRun Auxiliary Copy. From the Job Initiation tab on the Auxiliary Copy dialog box, select Schedule, and click OK.

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From the Schedule Details tab, select the necessary scheduling options. To view the job summary for the auxiliary copy job that you have scheduled, click the Job Summary tab.

Click OK to save the schedule.

Start an Auxiliary Copy

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions To start an auxiliary copy: 1. From the CommCell Browser, right-click the storage policy for which you want to perform an auxiliary copy, click All Tasks, and then clickRun Auxiliary Copy. In the Auxiliary Copy dialog box, the Storage Policy field is already populated with the name of the Storage Policy you selected. If the source copy is configured with a shared library, select the Source MediaAgent for the auxiliary copy. Select All Copies to copy data from the source copy to all secondary copies defined, or select a copy from the Select a Copy list box. Select Start new media to copy the data to a different tape or optical media. On a disk, this option, when selected, creates a new volume folder for the operation. Select the number of streams to copy in parallel from the Number of Streams to Copy in Parallel pane, or select Allow Maximum. Select Mark media full after successful operation to mark the media that is used for this operation full after the auxiliary copy operation has successfully completed. Select Select Most Recent Full Backup When Auxiliary Copy Starts to have the most recent successful full backup for each subclient copied when the Auxiliary Copy job is run. From the Job Initiation tab on the Auxiliary Copy dialog box, select the time for this job to run or choose to Run Immediately. You can also configure an alert for this job. Click Advanced to configure the Vault Tracker, Startup and Job Retry options.

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Click Vault Tracking to select additional Vault Tracker options for this operation from the Vault Tracking dialog box. Note: This option is only available if a Vault Tracker license is available in the CommServe.

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Click OK to start the auxiliary copy operation. A progress bar displays the progress of the operation.

Create Automatic Copy Schedule

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions To create an automatic copy schedule: 1. Right-click the storage policy associated with the secondary storage policy copy for which you wish to enable Auxiliary Copy operations, and then click Run Auxiliary Copy. To configure the copy options, refer to Start an Auxiliary Copy. From the Job Initiation tab of the Auxiliary Copy dialog box, select Automatic Copy, and if necessary, change the Interval time in which the copy should run; the default is set to every 30 minutes. Click OK to save your changes.

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Disable/Enable a Job From a Storage Policy Copy

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions To disable a job associated with a primary copy: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. From the right pane of the CommCell Browser, right-click the copy whose jobs you want to disable, click View and then click Jobs. Select the necessary filter options in the Job Filter for Storage Policy Copy dialog box. Click the Advanced button for additional filter options in the Jobs in Storage Policy Advanced Filter Options dialog box. Click OK. A list of jobs associated with a storage policy copy is displayed in the Jobs for Storage Policy Copy window. Right-click on a job, and click Prevent Copy (for primary copies) or Do Not Copy (for secondary copies).

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Select whether you want to prevent the associated incremental jobs in the Prevent Copy dialog box. A list of all jobs that will be disabled in addition to the job you selected are displayed in the Prevent Copy dialog box. Click OK. Click Yes on the Confirmation pop-up window.

To enable a job associated with a primary copy: 1. From the right pane of the CommCell Browser, right-click the primary copy whose jobs you want to disable, click View and then click Jobs. Filter the necessary options in the Job Filter for Storage Policy Copy dialog box. Click OK. A list of jobs associated with a storage policy copy is displayed in the Jobs for Storage Policy Copy window. Right-click on a job, and click Allow Copy.

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Disable/Enable All Jobs Associated with a Media

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions To disable all jobs associated with a media: 1. From the right pane of the CommCell Browser, right-click the copy containing the media to which you want to disable jobs, click View and then click Media. From the Media List dialog box, right-click on the media for which you wish to disable jobs and select Prevent Copy.

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To enable all jobs associated with a media: 1. From the right pane of the CommCell Browser, right-click the copy containing the media to which you want to enable jobs, click View and then click Media. From the Media List dialog box, right-click on the media for which you wish to enable jobs and select Allow Copy.

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Enable/Disable Stream Randomization

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions To enable stream randomization: 1. From the CommCell Browser, right click the storage policy for which you want to enable stream randomization, then click Properties. From the General tab of the Storage Policy Properties dialog box, mark the checkbox for Enable Stream Randomization. Note that this field is only enabled when the storage policy is configured to use more than one (1) data stream. Click OK.

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Tune Stream Randomization

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions To tune the stream randomization feature: 1. 2. From the Control Panel, double-click Media Management. From the Resource Manager Configuration tab of the Media management Configuration dialog box, perform the following:

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In the Interval (in minutes) to calculate valid data size for streams field specify the interval to calculate the data size for streams. In the Threshold (in GB) to decide how to distribute data among streams for backup field specify the threshold to decide data distribution among streams.

Click OK to save the changes.

Re-Copy Fully or Partially Copied Jobs

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions To recopy fully or partially copied jobs: 1. From the right pane of the CommCell Browser, right-click the storage policy copy whose data protection operations you want to recopy, clickView and then click Jobs. Select the necessary filter options in the Job Filter for Storage Policy Copy dialog box. Click the Advanced button for additional filter options in the Jobs in Storage Policy Advanced Filter Options dialog box. Click OK. A list of jobs associated with a storage policy copy is displayed in the Jobs for Storage Policy Copy window. Right click on a job to be recopied and select Re-Copy from the popup menu.

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Re-Copy All Jobs Associated with a Media

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions To re-copy all jobs associated with a media: 1. From the right pane of the CommCell Browser, right-click the copy whose media you want to disable, click View and then click Media. From the Media List dialog box, right-click on the media for which you wish to recopy jobs and select Re-Copy. Click Yes on the Confirmation pop-up window.

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Recover Your Data From Copies

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions To browse/restore/recover data from a specific synchronous or selective copy: 1. 2. Identify the storage policy that will be accessed by the data recovery operation. Identify the copy precedence number for each copy type of your storage policy using the Copy Precedence tab of the Storage Policy Properties dialog box. From the Advanced Browse Options dialog box, select the Browse from copy precedence option and then type or specify the precedence number in Copy Precedence. Data will be restored/recovered from the storage policy copy that has the selected copy precedence.

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Restore Data from a Secondary Copy using a Third-Party Command Line

Related Topics

Third-Party Command Line Operations

Restore the Oracle Database and Control File from a Secondary Copy using the RMAN Command Line Before You Begin

Ensure that you have run a backup of the Oracle database with one or more streams and, if applicable, the control file. Ensure that you have run an auxiliary copy operation after completing the backup(s).

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions To restore the Oracle database and control file from a secondary copy using the RMAN command line: 1. If applicable, restore the control file from autobackup using a secondary copy (otherwise skip to Step 2). To do this, run the script below from the RMAN command line: run { allocate channel ch1 type 'sbt_tape' PARMS="ENV=(CV_restCopyPrec=1)" TRACE 0; allocate channel ch2 type 'sbt_tape' PARMS="ENV=(CV_restCopyPrec=2)" TRACE 0; restore controlfile from autobackup ; }

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Run the script below from the RMAN command line to restore the Oracle database from a secondary copy: run { allocate channel ch1 type 'sbt_tape' PARMS="ENV=(CV_restCopyPrec=1)" TRACE 0; allocate channel ch2 type 'sbt_tape' PARMS="ENV=(CV_restCopyPrec=2)" TRACE 0; restore database; }

Restore the SAP Database from a Secondary Copy using the SAP Command Line Before You Begin

Ensure that you have run a backup of the SAP database. Ensure that you have run an auxiliary copy operation after completing the backup.

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions To restore the SAP database from a secondary copy using the SAP command line: 1. Edit the parameter file for the SAP for Oracle iDataAgent or SAP for MAXDB iDataAgent to include the following two parameter lines: CV_restCopyPrec 2

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Select a Source MediaAgent for an Auxiliary Copy Operation

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions Do not select a source MediaAgent for this operation unless the source copy is configured with a shared library. If an invalid MediaAgent is selected for the operation, it will fail.

To select a source MediaAgent for an auxiliary copy operation: 1. From the CommCell Browser, right-click the storage policy for which you want to perform an auxiliary copy, click All Tasks, and then clickRun Auxiliary Copy. Select the Source MediaAgent for the auxiliary copy. Continue configuring the auxiliary copy operation as outlined in Start an Auxiliary Copy.

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Export Media Using Vault Tracker

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To export media using Vault Tracker: 1. From the CommCell Browser, right-click the VaultTracker Policies icon under the Policies node, and then click New Tracking Policy. From the wizard, enter a name and description in the Policy Name and Description boxes. Click Next. Click Standard and then click Next. Select only the secondary copies whose tapes need to be taken offsite. Click Next. Select the library from which you want the media exported. Click Next. Select the media status to be managed by the policy. Click Next. Select an export location from the Export dropdown list. Click Next. Click Yes, and then click Next. Define the Vault Tracker policy schedule to occur either every day or every week depending upon how often you need to take the media offsite. Click Next. Select the time of day when you need the tapes to start appearing in the mail slot. Click Next. Select the start date, and end date and time. Click Next. Confirm your selections for the policy. Click Finish. Manually remove media from the mail slot.

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Make a Duplicate Copy of my Data

Summary
Run an auxiliary copy operation. To make a duplicate of this protected (backed up) data, you would simply need to run an auxiliary copy operation, which copies protected data from a source copy to one or more secondary copies, without requiring any involvement from the clients. Secondary copies can be configured to use secondary storage from the Primary Copy by specifying appropriate datapaths. Secondary copy can also be promoted as Primary copy to run backup operation to these copies. Auxiliary copy can copy all or selective set of data from source copy to secondary destination copies. Source copy need not be a primary copy, it can be any of the secondary copy.

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Disk-to-Disk Make a duplicate copy of data from a disk library to another disk library: Step 1: Create a storage policy copy that points to another disk library. Step 2: Run the auxiliary copy for the storage policy.

Disk-to-Tape Make a duplicate copy of data from a disk library to a tape/optical/offline library: Step 1: Create a storage policy copy that points to a tape library. Step 2: Run the auxiliary copy for the storage policy. Tape-to-Disk To make a duplicate copy of data from a tape/optical/offline library to a disk library: Step 1: Create a storage policy copy that points to a disk library. Step 2: Run the auxiliary copy for the storage policy.

Time-Based, Subclient-Specific Make a duplicate copy of full backup operation data from specific subclients on a weekly or monthly basis: Step 1: Create a selective storage policy copy that indicates the type of full backups to be copied, as well as the subclients from which to copy the data. Step 2: Schedule the auxiliary copy for the storage policy.

Perform Tape Rotation Using Grandfather-Father-Son (GFS) Tape Rotation

The hierarchical data retention strategy is the most common scheme of tape rotation. This is also commonly referred to as the 'Grandfather-Father-Son (GFS) Tape Rotation'. This scheme works as follows:

Three sets of backups, such as weekly, monthly and yearly are defined. The weekly or Son backups are rotated on a weekly basis with one graduating to Father status each month. The monthly or Father backups are rotated on a yearly basis with one graduating to Grandfather status each year. One or more of the graduated backups is removed from the site for disaster recovery and archival purposes.

This kind of tape rotation can be accomplished using one of the following methods.

Tape Rotation Using Selective Copies

A selective copy allows you to copy data selectively from a source to a target copy. This method creates separate copies of data which may be useful for off-site storage requirements. Use the following steps to perform tape rotation using Selective Copies. 1. Create a primary copy for daily backups with retention set to 30 days. How to create a Primary Copy 2. 3. Create a selective copy (e.g., Monthly Copy) for the monthly backups with retention set to 365 days and schedule it to run Create another selective copy (e.g., Yearly Copy) for yearly backups with infinite retention. How to create a Selective Copy 4. 5. Schedule Full Backups once every week. Schedule Incremental Backups every day. How to Schedule Backups

Tape Rotation Using Extended Retention Rules

Extended retention rules enables you to retain data for a much longer period of time than with Basic Retention Rules. This method carves out a graded retention from a single copy. Use the following steps to perform tape rotation using Extended Retention Rules. 1. Create a primary copy with retention set to 30 days. Also define the extended retention rules in the primary copy for monthly full backups to 365 days and yearly full backups as infinite. How to create a Primary Copy with Extended Retention Rules The above examples can be customized to suit the requirements of your environment.