The following table describes the available additional options to further refine your backup operations: 6. Select Enable Number Of Retries and specify the number of retries.
7. Click OK.
SUSPEND Temporarily stops a job. A suspended job is not terminated; it can be restarted at a later time.
RESUME Resumes a job and returns the status to Waiting, Pending, Queued, or Running. The status depends on the availability of resources, the state of the Operation Windows, or the Activity Control setting.
KILL Terminates a job.
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Startup Options
The Startup Options are used by the Job Manager to set priority for resource allocation. This is useful to give higher priority to certain jobs. You can set the priority as follows:1. From the CommCell Browser, navigate to Client Computers | <Client> | File System | Backup Set.
2. Right-click the Subclient in the right pane and click Backup. 3. Click Advanced and click Startup tab.
4. Select the Change Priority checkbox.
5. Enter a priority number - 0 is the highest priority and 999 is the lowest priority.
6. Select the Start up in suspended State check box to start the job in a suspended state. 7. Click OK.
Refer to Job Priority and Priority Precedence.
Alerts
This option enables users or user groups to get automatic notification on the status of the data protection job. Follow the steps given below to set up the criteria to raise notifications/alerts:1. From the CommCell Browser, navigate to Client Computers | <Client> | File System | Backup Set.
2. Right-click the Subclient in the right pane and click Backup. 3. Click Advanced and select the Alert tab.
4. Click Add Alert.
5. From the Add Alert Wizard dialog box, select the required threshold and notification criteria and click Next.
7. Select the recipients and click Next. 8. Click Finish.
9. Click OK.
Command Line Backups
Command Line Interface enables you to perform backups or restore from the command line. The commands can be executed from the command line or can be integrated into scripts. You can also generate command line scripts for specific operations from the CommCell Browser using the Save As Script option.Refer to Command Line Interface.
Data Path Options
Data Protection operations use a default Library, MediaAgent, Drive Pool, and Drive as the Data Path. You can use this option to change the data path if the default data path is not available. Follow the steps given below to change the default data path:1. From the CommCell Browser, navigate to Client Computers | <Client> | File System | Backup Set.
2. Right-click the Subclient in the right pane and click Backup. 3. Click Advanced and select the Data Path tab.
4. Select the MediaAgent and Library.
5. Select the Drive Pool and Drive for optical and tape libraries. 6. Click OK.
Refer Change Data Path.
Index Cache Server
Index Cache Server provides the facility to automatically continue data protection operations when there are job failures due to loss of connectivity to the index. You can configure the Index Cache Server as follows:1. From the CommCell Browser, navigate to Storage Resources | MediaAgent. 2. Right-click the <MediaAgent> and click Properties.
3. Click the Catalog tab and ensure that the Index Cache Server is configured.
4. From the CommCell Browser, navigate to Client Computers | <Client> | File System | Backup Set.
5. Right-click the Subclient in the right pane and click Backup. 6. Click Advanced.
7. Make sure that the Use shared profile if present with transaction logging option is selected.
8. Click OK.
Refer to Index Cache Server for more information.
Create New Index
This option accelerates Full or On Demand backups and is enabled by default. When you perform a browse and restore operation, the default browse displays data up to the most recent full backup. To browse and restore older data you have to use the options to browse before or between specific dates.When disabled, Full or On Demand backups may be slower. However the default browse displays all data in the entire retention period; not just one full backup cycle. Use the following steps to configure this option for specific Full or On Demand backups. This option can also be configured for all subclients at the iDataAgent level.
1. From the CommCell Browser, navigate to Client Computers | <Client> | File System | Backup Set.
2. Right-click the Subclient in the right pane and click Backup. 3. Select Full as a backup type and click Advanced.
4. Select the Create new index check box.
5. Click OK.
Refer to Index.
Start New Media
The Start New Media option enables you to start the data protection operation on a new media. This feature provides control over where the data physically resides.Use the following steps to start the data protection operation on a new media:1. From the CommCell Browser, navigate to Client Computers | <Client> | File System | Backup Set.
2. Right-click the Subclient in the right pane and click Backup. 3. Click Advanced and select the Media tab.
4. Select the Start New Media check box. 5. Click OK.
Refer to Start New Media.
Mark Media Full
This option marks the media as full, two minutes after the successful completion of the data protection job. This option prevents another job from writing to this media. Follow the steps given below:1. From the CommCell Browser, navigate to Client Computers | <Client> | File System | Backup Set.
2. Right-click the Subclient in the right pane and click Backup.
4. Select the Mark Media Full on Success check box. 5. Click OK.