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  5. Commvault Simpana Policy Summary Report

Commvault Simpana Policy Summary Report

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Use the Reports tab to examine the catalog of templates, dashboards and reports - organized by products along with user-created, and system folders. This report is located here:

Backup Manager > Backup Policies > Commvault Simpana Policies

Note:

The Backup Policies folder is available only if one of the following subsystems is licensed for data collection: EMC Avamar, Commvault Simpana, IBM Spectrum Protect (TSM), HP Data Protector, or Veritas NetBackup.

A Commvault Policy provides the mechanism for applying a set of backup rules to a collection of clients.

Table: Commvault Simpana Policy Summary Report

Column name

Description

CommServe

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Policy Name

The Commvault Simpana storage policy.

Backup Copy

The Commvault Simpana storage policy copy name.

Default Copy

Indicates if the policy listed is the primary copy. Only one copy in a policy will be the default copy.

Legal Hold

Indicates if the policy listed is enabled for legal holds.

Comp

Indicates if hardware compression is enabled for the storage used by this backup copy.

Encrypted

Indicates if hardware encryption is enabled for the storage used by this backup copy.

Max Streams

Maximum number of simultaneous streams of data usable by the policy

(Retention) Days

Number of days that backups are retained by this copy. A hyphen indicates unlimited retention. Both the number of days and full cycles must be exceeded before a backup is aged out.

(Retention) Cycles

Number of full cycles that backups will be retained by this copy. A hyphen indicates unlimited retention. Both the number of days and full cycles must be exceeded before a backup is aged out. A cycle is a group of backup jobs that starts with each successful Full Backup.

(Retention) Data Aging

Indicates if data aging is enabled. Data Aging ages data based on the retention rules of a storage policy copy, and then removes that data based on the media recycling rules of the associated media.

(Retention) Managed Space

Indicates if managed disk space is in use. Managed Disk Space provides a way to prune data according to disk capacity in addition to the existing retention criteria.

(Libraries) Drive Pool

Name of the drive pool associated with the Library.

(Libraries) Library

Backup location for the data.

(Dedup) Type

Indicates if data deduplication (if enabled) will be performed on the client or the server.

(Dedup) Level

Indicates if block-level or object-level deduplication will be performed. Commvault Simpana 9.0 only supports block-level deduplication.

(Dedup) Agent

The MediaAgent where deduplicated data is stored.

(Dedup) Store

The file path where deduplicated data is stored on the deduplication agent.

Clients

The number of subclients associated with this policy. The number of associated sub-clients will only be shown for the default copy.

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