We are an MSP, and we have a client who wants to be sure that we run a “Yearly Full” on a certain date in January. And that would need to get copied out to tape that would be retained for much longer and go to a different off-site location, so we want separate tapes for this yearly.
One of the junior admins tried to configure this in the Command Center and then came to me with questions.
He has a Monthly Copy and a Yearly Copy configured to copy to the tape pool.
But we couldn’t figure out whether simply marking this as a Yearly would make it run yearly. We tried to create a schedule from the CommCell Console, with the yearly rules where we could state that the yearly backup runs on the X day of X month, etc. But we couldn’t seem to find these types of rules on the Plan created copy, from Command Center nor CommCell Console. It seems like the selective rules are different on the Command Center created policy and Advanced is greyed out next to yearly.
We’re wondering what the correct Command Center process would be to have a Yearly tape copy that runs on a specific date and that those jobs would be selected as the Yearly full to copy to tape? How is this designed to work for Command Center users?