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i want to exclude old data from backups

  • 11 October 2022
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i am looking at ways to streamline my backups (for disaster recovery purposes).  i backup up millions of small files, many haven’t been accessed or modified in years.  i was wondering if there was any way i can add a date exclusion - eg dont backup a file that hasnt been accessed in over 2 years.  i have been having a look but cant see anything so i thought it would ask the question here.  thanks

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Best answer by Mike Struening RETIRED 11 October 2022, 16:10

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@LesleyH , thanks for the post and welcome to our community!

We have options like this in our archiving agents:

https://documentation.commvault.com/2022e/expert/11736_backup_and_archive_support.html

You will need to do a full backup first, but can then set all sorts of rules to skip files not accessed within X days, etc.

Here’s a list of the options/rules.  they are pretty extensive:

https://documentation.commvault.com/2022e/expert/61621_subclient_properties_archiving_rules.html

Let me know if that helps!

 

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thanks for that, i will take a look

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