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Intellisnap backup operations

  • March 14, 2025
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Good day all

I have a customer who wants an VM LUN to be snapped every 4 hours and kept on the storage array for 8 days.

We have disabled the Backup Copy option as we don’t want a copy going to the Maglib.

What we’ve picked up is that the snapshots don’t clear off the storage array after 8 days as they are waiting for a the backup copy job to run.

We do take 1 nightly snapshot and back it up to the Maglib, but that’s using a different plan. 

Is there a way Commvault can expire those snapshots on the 8 day plan without a backup copy being run?

Thanks,
Mauro

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CV_GK
Vaulter
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  • Vaulter
  • March 14, 2025

Hi ​@Mauro 

Can you share iDA details 


wgrande
Vaulter
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  • Vaulter
  • March 14, 2025

You might need to modify the Snapshot Option within your servicing “Plan” to change how snapshots are handled without backup copies:

 


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  • March 17, 2025

You might need to modify the Snapshot Option within your servicing “Plan” to change how snapshots are handled without backup copies:

 

We’ve got it setup as disabled. 

From the options you’ve provided, it looks like either of the 3 options requires some form of Backup Copy job to run to clear the snapshots?

 


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  • March 17, 2025

Hi ​@Mauro 

Can you share iDA details 

Hi

 

It’s VMWare and also Meditech snaps, that both run on Pure Array.