Question: I asked Gemini ai the following question below and want to make sure that this is correct way of understanding the retention of a Quarterly retention and data aging.
- Inside of Commvault when you have storage policies with quarterly retentions, how does the data that is backed up under that policy affect the license? Since it happens once a quarter does Commvault hold on to the data being backed up under the storage policy that counts towards the license?
In Commvault, when you have storage policies with quarterly retentions, the data backed up under that policy will count towards your license usage for the entire duration of the retention period. This means that even though the backups occur only once a quarter, Commvault will continue to track and include the backed-up data in your license usage calculations until it is aged out according to the quarterly retention policy.
Here's how it works:
- Initial Backup: When the initial backup occurs (once a quarter), the size of the backed-up data is added to your current license usage.
- Retention Period: Throughout the quarterly retention period, Commvault continues to track and include this backed-up data in your overall license usage, even though no new backups are occurring.
- Aging Out: When the data reaches the end of the quarterly retention period, it is aged out and deleted. At this point, the corresponding amount of data usage is removed from your license calculations.
