Hi,
In our environment we want to free up disk library space by aging off the data for disabled subclients which might still be eating up the space due to their backup cycle retention criteria not met. I came across this setting in control panel>Media Management Configuration>Data Aging (“Ignore cycle retention on backup activity disabled subclients”) which if we set to 1 should clean up data based on days only retention set in the corresponding storage policy and ignore its cycles retention portion for the disabled subclients.
I would like to know if anyone has used this setting in their environment and if any risks associated with this setting like data aging taking more time to complete or causing performance issues in commcell due to first run of data aging after enabling this setting?
Also if later on we enable the backup activity for that subclient will the existing backups (which still have not met days only criteria) and any new backups, will they again start following cycle + days retention for that subclient?
Thanks,
Nazish