Hi @Cameron,
 

Hope you’re well.
 

What kind of data are we talking about here?

As far as i’m aware, there are no inbuilt options that do this... I believe you could however create and then execute a batchfile that does this as part of a ‘postbackup’ process of a job e.g. https://documentation.commvault.com/commvault/v11_sp20/article?p=12757.htm

If you’re talking about archive data (e.g. mailbox), we can configure jobs to clean up messages that fit a certain criteria, including delete, for more information about this please refer to: https://documentation.commvault.com/commvault/v11_sp20/article?p=28887.htm

Let me know what type of data you’re needing to remove and I’ll see what else I can find.

Chris 

Hey @Cameron 

As Chris mentioned already, What is the environment and type of data here?

For instance, if it’s regular servers (Windows or Unix) / NAS clients / data coming from filers such as Netapp or Celera, then archiving solution can be used to archive data for short / long term retention and then the data is automatically deleted from source.

https://documentation.commvault.com/11.24/expert/25871_deleting_file_after_archiving.html

Thanks,

Sparsh

Hey guys, thanks for the response.  It’s a Windows server hosting Splunk data.  Older info is sent to a drive on the server.  Every 6 months we send this to tape and delete off the source.  I had another backup product in place which could do this natively, but Commvault doesn’t have that capability that I know of, so looking to script something.

@Chris Hollis has it right.  The pre and post scan/backup options allow you to do pretty much anything (Workflows even more!).

You’d just set up a post backup script to delete the contents and you should be good since it won’t work if the backup doesn’t complete.