Backups of VMs from one subclient may be subject to longer retention periods across different weekends

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Hi,After migrating subclients from Index v1 to Index v2, VM backups within application clusters are losing time consistency on Selective Copies (e.g., First Full of the Month). The issue arises because Index v2 splits the subclient backup into individual child jobs for each VM; when these jobs finish after midnight, the system assigns them to different retention periods. Due to a fixed backup window, we cannot delay the start times, and manually selecting jobs for tape marks is not scalable.How to configure it so that Selective Copy treats all child jobs of a given subclient as a single time unit, ensuring a consistent point-in-time recovery for the entire application cluster? Kind regards,

Sureshkumar S · Answer

Hi ​@mextrinsic,Good day!This behavior is expected with Index v2. In Index v2, each VM backup is a separate child job, and Selective Copy jobs are selected based on the completion time of each child job, not the parent job. There is no documented configuration or setting that forces Selective Copy to treat all child jobs of a subclient as a single atomic unit for period selection.Ref :https://documentation.commvault.com/2023e/commcell-console/jobs_and_job_control_for_vm_centric_operations.htmlRegards,Sureshkumar S

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