API to update storage policy copy retention rule(days)

Hello,

you just need to send a POST request with the following in the request body.

sample body

{
  "newCopyName": "secondary",
  "storagePolicyCopyInfo": {
    "StoragePolicyCopy": {
      "copyId": <copyId>,
      "storagePolicyId": <storagePolicyId>
    },
    "copyType": "SYNCHRONOUS",
    "isDefault": "SET_FALSE",
    "isSnapCopy": "DO_NOT_CHANGE",
    "extendedFlags": {
      "useGlobalStoragePolicy": "SET_TRUE"
    },
    "retentionRules": {
      "retainBackupDataForDays": 7,
      "retainBackupDataForCycles": 1,
      "retainArchiverDataForDays": -1
    },
    "useGlobalPolicy": {
      "storagePolicyId": <storagePolicyId>,
      "storagePolicyName": "storagePolicyName"
    },
    "startTime": {
      "time": -1
    },
    "sourceCopy": {
      "copyId": <copyId>,
      "copyName": "<copyName>"
    },
    "dedupeFlags": {
      "enableDASHFull": "SET_TRUE"
    }
  }
}

example

change retainBackupDataForDays for backup destination name “secondary”

curl --location 'http://WebConsoleHostName/webconsole/api/StoragePool?Action=copyEdit' \
--header 'Accept: application/json' \
--header 'Authtoken: QSDK token would be auto set after POST Login is called.'' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
  "newCopyName": "secondary",
  "storagePolicyCopyInfo": {
    "StoragePolicyCopy": {
      "copyId": 1085,
      "storagePolicyId": 52
    },
    "copyType": "SYNCHRONOUS",
    "isDefault": "SET_FALSE",
    "isSnapCopy": "DO_NOT_CHANGE",
    "extendedFlags": {
      "useGlobalStoragePolicy": "SET_TRUE"
    },
    "retentionRules": {
      "retainBackupDataForDays": 7,
      "retainBackupDataForCycles": 1,
      "retainArchiverDataForDays": -1
    },
    "useGlobalPolicy": {
      "storagePolicyId": 27,
      "storagePolicyName": "cvstu"
    },
    "startTime": {
      "time": -1
    },
    "sourceCopy": {
      "copyId": 1082,
      "copyName": "Primary"
    },
    "dedupeFlags": {
      "enableDASHFull": "SET_TRUE"
    }
  }
}'

if you need, you can get info for Storage Policy use next GET request

GET {{ServerUrl}}/V2/StoragePolicy

example

curl --location 'http://WebConsoleHostName/webconsole/api/V2/StoragePolicy' \
--header 'Authtoken: {{Token}}' \
--header 'Accept: application/json'

 and get “storagePolicyId” from output

example

...   
"policies": [

             {
               "numberOfStreams": 100,
               "storagePolicy": {
               "storagePolicyName": "PlanName",
               "storagePolicyId": 18
              }
...
             ]
...

and get details for policy by id (storagePolicyId) use next GET request

GET {{ServerUrl}}/V2/StoragePolicy/18?propertyLevel=10

example

curl --location 'http://WebConsoleHostName/webconsole/api/V2/StoragePolicy/18?propertyLevel=10' \
--header 'Authtoken: {{Token}}' \
--header 'Accept: application/json'

and use the received data to form the desired POST request.

More details about API this https://api.commvault.com/#08b3c816-735b-46ce-a5f5-879629a6c504