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Hi all.
I have a Storage policy copy where I have deactivated the copy by removing the check mark in the “active” check box, because I don’t want to use the copy any more and just want to age data out.
My questions is. Now that I have deactivated the copy, will data age out, or will data only age if the copy is active?
I ask because it seems that data is not aging when the storage policy is not active.
Regards
-Anders
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Data should age in line with the defined retention settings, including Cycles-based retention (where the option to ignore cycles retention wasn't selected when marking the Copy inactive)
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Were you prompted with a warning like the below:
If not, what feature release is your environment on?
If you selected no, the jobs will remain on their respective copies indefinitely (as there are no new cycles to allow them to age).
If you’re not dealing with many jobs, you can manully tidy them up from the copy (manually delete them from the copy), if there are hundreds, you could bulk delete them or enable the option ‘Ignore Cycles Retention On De-Configured Clients’ and if/when that client is ever deconfigured, any jobs on storage tied to it that has met day retention will then qualify for aging and be cleaned up.
More on that can be found here: https://documentation.commvault.com/2023e/expert/media_management_configuration_data_aging.html
Regards,
Chris
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Hi
Yes, the data should age off even though copy is inactive.
Please refer to this doc link
https://documentation.commvault.com/2023e/expert/marking_copy_as_inactive.html
If you mark a storage policy copy as inactive, your primary copy data can still be pruned without being copied and the copy cannot be used to transfer data to media.
Also, please refer to this Media Management config param below. This may help.
https://documentation.commvault.com/2023e/expert/media_management_configuration_data_aging.html
Delete checkpoints for not currently active storage policies
Definition: When this option is enabled, checkpoints (Index backups) from inactive storage policies will be pruned with data aging job.
Default Value: 0
Range: 0 (disabled) or 1 (enabled)
Usage: Set this option to 1 and run data aging job to prune index backups from inactive storage policies.
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