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Contents Legal Notices ......................................................................................................................... ................................................................... ........................................................................................... ..................................... 2  Before we begin begin ..................................................  ........................................................................................................ .................................................................................................... .............................................. 7  CommCell® Console ............................................................................................. ....................................... ........................................................................................................... ....................................................... ..8  CommCell® Toolbar ................................................... ......................................................................................................... ........................................................................................... ..................................... 9  ®

..................... ......................................................................................................... ..................................................... 10  CommCell  Browser Window ......................................................................... Content / Summary Window ............................................................................................................................... ................................................................................... ............................................ 11  Job Controller Window ............................................... ................................................................................................... ......................................................................................... ..................................... 12  Event Viewer Window ................................................ .................................................................................................... ......................................................................................... ..................................... 13  Module 1 1 –  – CommCell  CommCell Administration ............................................................................. ....................... .................................................................................................. ............................................ 14  Lab 1: Customizing the the CommCell® Console ......................................................................................... ................................... ........................................................................ .................. 14  Moving Tabbed Windows .................................................... ......................................................................................................... ................................................................................ ........................... 14  Console: onsole: ................................................ ..................................................................................................... ..................................................... 14   Accessing and using the CommCell® C  Adding Fields to the Job Contro Controller ller ................................................ .................................................................................................... ...................................................................... .................. 16  ....................................................................................................... .............................................................. ......... 17  Customizing window sizes and location .................................................. Reactivating Windows ............................................................................................. ......................................................................................................................................... ............................................ 17  .................................................................................................... ................................................................................ ........................... 17  Resetting the Default Layout ............................................... Hiding the CommCell® Browser ..................................................... ......................................................................................................... ...................................................................... .................. 18  .......................................... ......................................................................................... ................................... 19  Lab 2: CommCell® Security ................................................................................................ Create a CommCell User an and d a Role ........................................................................ .................. .................................................................................................. ............................................ 19  Create New CommCell User Group ............................................................................................................. ......................................................... ............................................................. ......... 20  Configure Role Based Security for an Entity ............................................................. ....... .................................................................................................. ............................................ 21   View System Created Roles after Upgrade from from Previous Commvault® Version.............................................. Version....................................................... ......... 22  Lab 3: CommCell Administrative Tasks ..................................................... .......................................................................................................... .............................................................. ......... 23  Client Computer Groups ............................................. ................................................................................................. ......................................................................................... ..................................... 23  Create Client Computer Group using Manual Association .................................................... ....................................................................................... ................................... 23  Create Client Computer Group using Automatic Association................................................ ................................................................................... ................................... 23  Lab 4: Commserve® Server Disaster Recovery (DR) Backup Settings ....................................................................... 24  Confirm DR Export and Backup Parameters ..................................................... .......................................................................................................... ..................................................... 24  Confirm the DR Backup Schedule Pattern ............................................... .................................................................................................... .............................................................. ......... 24  Confirm the Backup Retention settings ................................................... ........................................................................................................ .............................................................. ......... 24  Media Management .......................................................................................... ........................................................................ .................. 25  Module 2: Storage Configuration and Media Lab 1: Disk Library Configuration ..................................................... ......................................................................................................... ...................................................................... .................. 25   Add a Disk Librar Library y ..................................................... ........................................................................................................... ......................................................................................... ................................... 25 

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 View Disk Library Properties Properties ................................................ ..................................................................................................... ................................................................................ ........................... 26  V alidation Job ................................................... ....................................................................................................... ...................................................................... .................. 27  Run a Mount Path Validation Lab 2: Tape Library Configuration .................................................... ........................................................................................................ ...................................................................... .................. 28   Adding a Direct Attached Tape Library ................................................... ........................................................................................................ .............................................................. ......... 28  .................................................................................................... ................................................................................ ........................... 29  Lab 3: Managing Tape Media: ............................................... Move Cleaning Media to Cleaning Media Pool ....................................................................................................... .................................................................. ..................................... 29  ........................................................................................................ ...................................................................... .................. 29  Set Scratch Pool Threshold level ....................................................  View Contents of a Tape ..................................................... .......................................................................................................... ................................................................................ ........................... 30   Verifying Media ................................................ ...................................................................................................... .................................................................................................. ............................................ 30  Exporting Media ................................................................ ........................................................................................................................ ................................................................................. ......................... 30  ................................................................................................................................ ........................................................................ ................ 30  Individual Export ........................................................................ Bulk Export .................................................................................. ...................................................................................................................................... ...................................................................... .................. 31  Deleting and Erasing Data on Tapes ...................................................... ........................................................................................................... .............................................................. ......... 31  .......................................................................................................................................... .............................................................. ......... 31  Deleting Tapes ..................................................................................... Delete Tape Contents ................................................ .................................................................................................... ......................................................................................... ..................................... 31  ................................................................................................................. ......................................................................................... ................................... 32  Erasing Tapes ........................................................... ..................................................................................................... .............................................................. ......... 33  Configure Spare Media Selection Criteria................................................ Lab 4: Deduplication Configuration Configuration .................................................. ...................................................................................................... ...................................................................... .................. 34  Create a Global Deduplication Policy ...................................................... ........................................................................................................... .............................................................. ......... 34  .................................................... ............................................ 36  Configure Operation Window for Physical Pruning ................................................................................................ Set up a DDB pruning operation window................................................ ..................................................................................................... .............................................................. ......... 36  ............................................................................................................ ............................................................. ......... 37  Configure DDB Verification Options ........................................................ Module 3: Storage Policy Policies and Retention .................................................... ......................................................................................................... ..................................................... 38  Lab 1: Creating Storage Policies ............................................................................................................................ ................................................................................ ............................................ 38  Create a New Standard Storage Policy ................................................... ........................................................................................................ .............................................................. ......... 38  Create a Deduplication Storage Policy .................................................... ......................................................................................................... .............................................................. ......... 39  Create Standard Storage Policy with Global Deduplication .................................................. ..................................................................................... ................................... 39  Create a Standard Storage Policy using a Tape library .......................................................................................... ................................................................ .......................... 40  Configure Storage Policy Properties ..................................................................................................................... ......................................................................... ............................................ 41  Edit Storage Policy Copy Properties ..................................................................................................................... .................................................................................. ................................... 41  Lab 2: Creating Secondary Copies.................................................... Copies........................................................................................................ ...................................................................... .................. 42  Create a new secondary copy ........ ................................................................ ............................................................................................................ ............................................................. ......... 42  .................................................................................... ................................... 43  Create a Selective Secondary Copy using Alternate Source ................................................. Create a Global Secondary Copy.................................................... ........................................................................................................ ...................................................................... .................. 44  .................................................. ................................... 46  Create a Secondary Copy using a Global Secondary Copy ..................................................................................... Change a Secondary Copy Type ................................................................................................................. ............................................................. ............................................................. ......... 47  Page 4 of 76 76  

 

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Configure Secondary Copy Encryption Settings ................................................ ..................................................................................................... ..................................................... 48  ......................................................................................................... ..................................................... 49  Lab 3: Deduplication Enabled Storage Polices .................................................... ....................................................... ......... 49  Create a Secondary Storage Policy Copy using the Global Deduplication Policy .............................................. Module 4: Client Administration ................................................ ..................................................................................................... ................................................................................ ........................... 50  Tasks ................................................... ....................................................................................................... ...................................................................... .................. 50  Lab 1: Client Administrative Tasks .......................................................................................................... ..................................................... 50  Check client connectivity (check readiness) ..................................................... ..................................................................................................... ......................................................................................... ..................................... 50   View client schedules.................................................  View client job history ............................................................................................ ........................................................................................................................................ ............................................ 51  Lab 2: Client Properties ................................................ .................................................................................................... ......................................................................................... ..................................... 52   Accessing Client Propertie Propertiess ...................................................................................................... ................................................. ................................................................................ ........................... 52  ...................................................................................................... ......................................................................................... ..................................... 52  Client Update Status .................................................. Configure Client Activity Control .......................................................................................................................... ................................................................................................ .......................... 52  ..................................................................................................... ................................................................................ ........................... 53  Lab 3: Configuring Subclients ................................................ Subclient ubclient Content .................................................. ....................................................................................................... ................................................................................ ........................... 53  Defining S ..................................................................................................................... ................................................................................ ......................... 54  Configuring Filters .............................................................. .................................................................................................. ......................................................................................... ..................................... 54  Configure Global Filters.............................................. ...................................................................................... .................................................................................................. ............................................ 54  Configure Subclient Filters ................................ Job Throttling .................................................. ...................................................................................................... ...................................................................... .................. 56  Lab 4: Enable Client Job Configure Client Job Throttling ...................................................... .......................................................................................................... ...................................................................... .................. 57  Module 5: Data Protection and Recovery Recovery ..................................................... .......................................................................................................... .............................................................. ......... 58  Lab 1: Scheduling a Data Protection Job ................................................................................................................ ....................................................................................... ......................... 58  Create a Laptop Job Schedule .................................................................................................................... ................................................................ ............................................................. ......... 59  Lab 2: Managing Jobs .................................................. ...................................................................................................... ......................................................................................... ..................................... 61  Pause the Job Scheduler ..................................................................................................................................... ................................................................................................ ..................................... 61  Lab 3: Backup and Restore Individual File in Place ...................................................... .................................................................................................. ............................................ 62  Part I: Backup the Mission Critical Subclient ......................................................................................................... .................................................... ..................................................... 62  Part II: Restore In-Place ..................................................... .......................................................................................................... ................................................................................ ........................... 62  Browse and Restore folder Out-of-Place................................................. ...................................................................................................... .............................................................. ......... 63  Restore by Jobs ................................................ ...................................................................................................... .................................................................................................. ............................................ 63  Enable the Pie Chart View ................................................... ........................................................................................................ ................................................................................ ........................... 65  Use Pie Chart View to Browse Data ..................................................................................................................... ......................................................................... ............................................ 66  Module 6: Monitoring Activities Activities ...................................................................  ........................................................................................................................ .............................................................. ......... 67  Lab 1: Alerts.............................................. Alerts.................................................................................................... ........................................................................................................... ..................................................... 67  ......................................................................................................... ...................................................................... .................. 67  Create a Required Update Alert ..................................................... Alerts.............................................. ................................................................................................... ..................................................... 68  Create a Failed Phase Alert using Console Alerts Lab 2: Reports.................................................... .......................................................................................................... .................................................................................................. ............................................ 70  Page 5 of 76 76  

 

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Creating a Report ...................................................... ............................................................................................................ ......................................................................................... ................................... 70  a n Existing Report ....................................................................................................... ............................................................................ ........................... 71  Changing the Recipient of an Schedule a Data Retention Forecast and Compliance Report R eport ................................................................................. 71  Save a CommCell® Configuration Report ................................................ ..................................................................................................... .............................................................. ......... 72  environment .............................................. .......................................................................................... ............................................ 73   APPENDIX A: User Guide to Access CVLab environment  Accessing and launching the CVLab envir environment onment ................................................................................................. .............................................................. ................................... 73  Console onsole ................................................. ...................................................................................................... ..................................................... 76   Accessing and using the CommCell® C Resource Documents ............................................................. .................................................................................................................... ................................................................................ ......................... 76 

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Before we begin Please follow the instructions below to access the CVLab environment:

 

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Login to your Education Advantage Profile from  from https://ea.commvault.com https://ea.commvault.com,, to access your course materials and virtual lab environment. For information regarding logging into the Virtual Lab Environment please refer to to   Appendix Appendix A. A. 

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CommCell® Console The CommCell® Console is made up of the following windows:  

CommCell Toolbar  Toolbar –  provides an easy to navigate ‘ribbon’ to manage and configure the CommCell environment.

 

CommCell Browser  Browser –  is the main navigation window which contains a hierarchical structure of all categories and components within the CommCell environment.

 

Content / Summary window  window –  provides details based on what component is selected in the CommCell Browser.

 

Job Controller  Controller –  provides viewing and control capabilities for all active jobs in the CommCell environment.

 

Event Viewer  Viewer –  provides information for all logged events in the CommCell environment.

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CommCell® Toolbar The CommCell Console uses a ribbon style toolbar to provide more efficient navigation and configuration. Configuration options are organized within the toolbar to provide quick access to perform common tasks. Use the mouse to quickly move through the different toolbars available. The toolbar can also be hidden by clicking the up arrow in the upper-right corner.

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CommCell® Browser Window The CommCell Browser is the primary window used to navigate and configure CommCell components. The browser b rowser provides two views: Browser (default) view and Agents view. The navigation is hierarchical in nature and through properties pages, most settings can be customized through thr ough the CommCell Browser.

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Content / Summary Window The Content / Summary window provides information specific to entity selected in the CommCell® Browser. Depending on what object in the browser has focus, the Content / Summary S ummary windows provide the following information:  

Content  – displays Content  – displays contents contained within the object selected.

 

Summary   – displays Summary – displays an overview summary of the object selected.

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Job Controller Window The Job Controller provides monitoring functionality for all active jobs within the CommCell ® environment. Jobs remain in the Job Controller for five minutes after the job completes, fails or is killed. The default time jobs will be maintained after they are finished can be modified in the User Preferences applet in the Control Panel.

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Event Viewer Window  All Commvault® software related events are reported in the CommCell Event Viewer. By default, 200 events are displayed in the event viewer, but the event log maintains up to 10,000 events or 7 days of events. These options can be configured in the System Settings applet in the Control Panel.

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Module 1 – 1 – CommCell  CommCell Administration Lab 1: Customizing the CommCell® Console Moving Tabbed Windows Tabbed windows can be rearranged in any order by clicking, dragging and dropping the tab. This can be beneficial when many windows are open at the same time.

1.  From your CVLAB Launchpad, verify the Commserve (ea-2016-cs) (ea-2016-cs) and MediaAgent (ea-2016-ma) virtual servers are running before continuing. 2.  On the ea-2016-cs host, log in to the CommCell Console using Console using the proper credentials.

 Accessing and using the CommCell® CommCell® Console: Console:

From the Windows task bar: To access the CommCell console click the launcher icon in the Windows Task bar

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Use the following credentials to log in to the CommCell console:

  Username: admin   Password: admin

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Started tab (if open). 3.  In the Summary Window of the CommCell Console, close the Getting Started tab 4.  On the CommCell Console’s Ribbon Toolbar, Toolbar, click the View the View tab | Tile Horizontally tool Horizontally tool icon. 5.  Combine the Event Viewer and Job Controller tabs by dragging the Event Viewer tab tab  alongside to the Job Controller tab. 6.  Select the Job Controller tab to bring its dialog box to the front.

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 Adding Fields Fields to the Job Job Controller Controller

1.  In the upper-right corner of the Job Controller window, click the Chevron Chevron (double-down)  (double-down) arrow icon. In the menu list that displays, move to the “ the “Choose Choose columns”  columns”  task.  task. A list of columns appears. 2.  Select Number of Readers in use column. use  column. 3.  In the Job Controller window, if necessary, scroll to the right to locate the newly added “ added  “Number Number of Readers in use”  use ”  column.  column. Click and drag the Number of Readers in use column use  column next to the Job Type.

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Customizing window sizes and location

Step-by-Step 1.  In the upper-right corner of the Job Controller  Controller window click the square icon icon  to maximize the Job Controller Controller   window. 2.  In the upper-right corner of the Job Controller  Controller  window click the double square icon to minimize the Job Controller window. Controller  3.  In the upper-right corner of the Job Controller  Controller  window click the double square icon  to float the Job Controller  window on top of the CommCell® Console. The floating window can be repositioned Controller repositioned by dragging dragging the title bar.

Reactivating Windows

Step-by-Step 1.  In the upper-right corner of the Job Controller  Controller window click the X the X icon icon  to close the  window. 2.  On the CommCell® Console’s Ribbon Toolbar, Toolbar, click the Home Home ribbon  ribbon tab. 3.  On the Home ribbon, click the Job Controller icon. The Job Controller  Controller  window appears.

Resetting the Default Layout

Step-by-Step 1.  On the CommCell Console’s Ribbon Toolbar click Toolbar click the View the View ribbon  ribbon tab. 2.  On the View ribbon select the Reset Layout icon. Layout icon. The CommCell® Console displays its default configuration.

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Hiding the CommCell® Browser The CommCell Browser can be hidden by unpinning the browser window. This can free up space in the console to view more information in the Job Controller and Event E vent Viewer windows. Once hidden, the browser window can be temporarily displayed by hovering the mouse over the browser tab on the left side of the window. To lock the browser window back, click the pin button on the right side of the browser window.

1.  In the CommCell® Browser window, click the Pin Pin button  button in the upper-right corner to hide the browser. The browser collapses to the left of the console window. 2.  Hover over the CommCell Browser button to temporarily view the browser window. 3.  Click the CommCell Browser button and then click the Pin Pin to  to restore the browser window to its original position.

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Lab 2: CommCell® Security Create a CommCell User and a Role

1.  In the CommCell Browser, expand the Security Security entity  entity and select CommCell Users. Users. 2.  Right-click CommCell Users and Users and select New User. User. 3.  Enter a username and password (of your choice) in the New User Properties window. Properties window. 4.  From the User Groups tab, Groups tab, select an available group and click the right arrow (>) to move it to the Members Group column. Group  column. 5. 

In the Email ID box, type the Email address [email protected]

6.  Click OK  to  to create your user. 7.  In the CommCell Browser, expand the Security Security entity  entity and select Roles Roles.. 8.  Right-click Roles Roles and  and select New Role. Role. 9.  In the Name field type: Help Desk   10.  In the Description field type: Restore Data role  role  11.  In the Permissions section: a.  Expand the Client Client entity  entity and select the following permissions: i.  Browse ii.  In Place Recover iii.  Live Browse iv.  Out-of-Place Recover v.  Overwrite on restore vi.  Recover and Download b.  Expand the Global Global entity  entity and select the following permissions: i.  Job Management

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12.  Select OK  to  to create the Role.

Create New CommCell User Group 1.  In the CommCell® Browser window, expand, the Security Security entity  entity and right-click the CommCell User Groups entity. Groups  entity. From the shortcut menu that appears, select New User Group. Group. The New User Group Properties dialog box appears. 2.  Create a New CommCell User Group using the following information: a.  General tab: i.  Name:

Help Desk Group

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Auditor functions

b.  Members tab: i.  Select your CommCell User name and move to include in the Associated the  Associated Members column. Members column. c.   Associated Entities tab: tab: i.  Click Click Add  Add and expand Client Computers. Computers. Select the following machines:  

ea-2016-cs

 

ea-2016-ma

 

ea-2016-orcl

 

ea-2016-shpt

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ii.  Select one of the roles from the Please select Role drop-down Role drop-down menu 3.  Click OK to save and exit the dialog box. 4.  Click OK to close the window.

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Configure Role Based Security for an Entity

1.  In the CommCell® Browser, expand the Client Computers entity Computers entity and right-click ea-2016-ma ea-2016-ma |  | Properties Properties.. 2.  Select the Security Security tab.  tab. 3.  Click Click Add  Add to  to configure security for this entity. 4.  From the Users and Groups section, Groups section, select your user name and click Add click  Add to  to move the user to the bottom window. 5.  From the Role Role section,  section, select the drop-down option for Please select Role: and Role: and select the Help Desk  role.  role. 6.  Click OK  to  to accept the configuration. 7.  Click OK  to  to complete the changes to security for this entity.

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View System Created Roles after Upgrade from Previous Commvault ® Version

1.  In the CommCell® Browser, expand the Security Security entity  entity and select Roles Roles.. 2.  In the Summary window, right-click on a role to view the options to edit, delete, or create a new role.

If the CommCell environment has been upgraded from a previous version the system will show these as depicted in the image above.

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Lab 3: CommCell Administrative Tasks Client Computer Groups Create Client Computer Group using Manual Association 1.  In the CommCell® Browser window, right-click on the Client Computer Groups entity and select New Group.. The Create New Client Group window Group Group  window appears. 2.  Enter the following in the Group Name field: Windows Computers. Computers. 3.   Verify that Manual Association is selected. 4.  In the All the All clients list, clients list, select the ea-2016-cs, ea-2016-cs,  ea-2016-ma ea-2016-ma,, and ea-2016-shpt ea-2016-shpt clients.  clients. Click Include Include to  to move them to the Clients in this group list. group list. 5.  Click OK to save and exit the Create New Client Group dialog box.

Create Client Computer Group using Automatic Association 1.  In the CommCell® Browser window, right-click on the Client Computer Groups entity and select New Group.. Group 2.  Enter the following information: a.  Group Name: Database Computers 3.  Select Automatic Select Automatic Association Association.. 4.  In the Rule Group box Group box verify the following from the pull-down menus: a.   Agents Installed b.  any in selection 5.  Click the pull-down menu in the next input window, and check the Database Database check  check box. All databases are automatically selected.

6.  Click the Select link on the top of the list box to exit the list. 7.  Click Preview Preview.. You should see the ea-2016-exch, ea-2016-ma, ea-2016-orcl and ea-2016-shpt clients. Click Close to exit the Preview dialog box.

8.  From the Security tab, click Add click Add.. The Add The Add Users and Groups window Groups window appears. 9.  Click the pull-down menu of the Domain Domain field  field and select the Company Company domain  domain name. Locate the Active Directory domain accounts: Company\Discovery Management. Management. Scroll through the list or or enter the the first letter of the name in the Find Find field.  field.

10. Select Company\Discovery Management from Management from the list and click Add click  Add to  to move it to the field below. 11. Click the Please select Role pull-down Role pull-down menu and select the Client Admins role from the list. 12. Click OK  to  to save and exit the Add the  Add Users and Groups dialog Groups dialog box. 13. Click OK to save and exit the Create New Client Group dialog box. Page 23 23 of  of 76 76  

 

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Lab 4: Commserve® Server Disaster Recovery (DR) Backup Settings Confirm DR Export and Backup Parameters

1.  On the CommCell® Console’s Console’s Ribbon  Ribbon Toolbar, select the Home ribbon ribbon  tab| Control Panel icon. The Control Panel  appears. Panel

Panel’s Maintenance  Maintenance  group, click DR Backup. Backup. The DR Backup settings Backup settings dialog box appears. 2.  In the Control Panel’s 3.  Note the following information:

a.  Number of full Metadata Backups to be retained: b.  Back up Metadata to this folder: c.  Back Up Metadata to this Disaster Recovery Storage Policy:

4.  Click Cancel to close the DR Backup Settings  Settings dialog box. 5.  Click the X  the X  to  to close the Control Panel  Panel dialog box. Confirm the DR Backup Schedule Pattern 1.  In the CommCell® Browser window, right-click on the ea-2016-cs entity at the top of the entities tree, and select View select  View | Schedules  Schedules.. a.  From the Schedule Name column Name column double-click on DR Backup Full schedule and note the following information. Schedule Pattern: 2.  Click Cancel to close the Disaster Recovery Options dialog box.

Confirm the Backup Retention settings 1.  In the CommCell® Browser expand Policies Policies   | Storage Policies | CommserveDR entity. 2.  In the Summary window, right-click the Primary copy and select Properties Properties.. The Copy Properties  Properties dialog box opens. 3.  In the General tab note the following information: a.  Library: ___________________ b.  MediaAgent: 4.  Select the Retention tab and note the following information: a.  Retain for days and cycles 5.  Click on Cancel to exit the Copy Properties  Properties dialog box.

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Module 2: Storage Configuration and Media Management Lab 1: Disk Library Configuration  A disk library is a logical logical container which is used to define one or more paths paths to storage called mount paths. paths. These paths are defined explicitly to the location of the storage and can be defined as a drive letter, Windows mount point, or a UNC path. Within each mount path, writers can be allocated, which defines the total number of concurrent streams for the mount path.

 Add a Disk Disk Library Library 1.  In the CommCell® Browser window, expand Storage Resources. Resources. Right-click on the Libraries entity and select Add select  Add | Disk Library… The Add Disk Library  Library dialog box appears. 2.  Enter the following information: a.  Name:

20TB Storage Array

b.  MediaAgent:

ea-2016-ma   ea-2016-ma

c.  Select

Network Path  Path 

d.  Connect As:

Company\student   Company\student

e.  Password:

student   student

f.   Verify Password:

student   student

g.  Folder: Enter the the following network network share share path: \\ea-2016-ma\Vol1 and click OK . 3.  Click OK  to  to save and create the library. The 20TB Storage Array library Array library appears in the Libraries Libraries list.  list.

 Add a Mount Mount Path Path to an existing Disk Library Library 1.  Right-click on the 20TB Storage Array library Array library and select Add select  Add Mount Path from Path from the pop-up menu. 2.  Enter the following information: a.  Select:

Network Path

b.  Connect As:

Company\student   Company\student

c.  Password:

student   student

d.   Verify Password:

student   student

e.  Folder: Enter the following network network share path: \\ea-2016-ma\Vol2 \\ea-2016-ma\Vol2   3.  Click OK  to  to save the new Mount Path. The new mount path is added to the 20TB Storage Array library. Array library. 4.  Click the 20TB Storage Array library Array library and view the created mount paths and details in the Summary window.

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View Disk Library Properties

1.  In the CommCell® Browser, expand the Storage Resources | Libraries  Libraries entity.  entity. 2.  Right-click the Basic Disk (MA) library and select Properties Properties.. 3.  Review each of the tabs to see the options for your library settings. 4.  Click Cancel Cancel to  to close the Library Properties window.

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Run a Mount Path Validation Job

1.  In the CommCell® Browser, expand the Storage Resources | Libraries  Libraries entity.  entity. 2.  Expand the Dedupe Disk (MA) library to view the Mount Paths associated with the library. 3.  Right-click on the mount path [ea-2016-ma]F:\ [ea-2016-ma]F:\ listed  listed under the library and select the option to Validate to  Validate Mount Path. Path. 4.  From the “Validate Mount Path” window confirm the settings and select OK . 5.  Select the Job Controller tab to view the Validation job. 6.  Right-click on the job and select Detail… to view the job.

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Lab 2: Tape Library Configuration  Adding a Direct Attached Attached Tape Library 1.  In the CommCell® Browser  Browser  window, expand Storage Resources. Resources. Right-click on the Libraries Libraries entity  entity and select Add select  Add |  | Tape Library. Library. 2.  In the Add Tape Library  Library dialog box, select the ea-2016-cs MediaAgent and click Scan Hardware. Hardware. Any detected libraries will appear in the “ the “Libraries Libraries and Drives”  Drives”  window. 3.  Expand the newly detected tape library and verify the hardware. 4.  Click OK to configure the tape library. 

5.   A Success  Success dialog box appears. Click OK . 6.  Click OK to save the new configured library (CommVault (CommVault ML6030 x) x) and exit the Add Tape  Tape  Library Library   dialog box.

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Lab 3: Managing Tape Media: Move Cleaning Media to Cleaning Media Pool 1.  In the CommCell® Browser window, expand Storage Resources | Resources | Libraries Libraries |  | CommVault ML6030 x | Media by Groups. Groups. 2.  Select Default Scratch. Scratch. 3.  In the Summary Summary Window,  Window, a list of tapes will be displayed. In the “ the “Barcode Barcode”  ”  column,  column, locate any tapes in labeled with CLNxxx barcodes. These are the cleaning tapes. 4.  Hold down the CTRL key and key and select all the cleaning tapes. tapes. (If there are no cleaning tapes in the Default Scratch media pool, select 2 or 3 random tapes.)

NOTE: Cleaning media does not ne need ed special barcodes for Commvault Commvault software. However if you plan to use generic barcodes for cleaning media check with your library vendor to ensure the library does not need special cleaning media barcodes.

5.  Right-click on the highlighted group and from the pop-up menu and select All select  All Tasks | Tasks | Move Move.. The Move Media dialog box appears. 6.  For Destination Pool Type, click the drop-down list control for “ for “Please Please select Media Group Type:”  Type:”  and  and select Cleaning Media Pool from the drop-down menu. 7.  Click OK . A Warning dialog box appears asking “ asking “ Are  Are you sure you want to move move the media to a Cleaning Cleaning Media Pool?”  Pool?”  Click Yes  Click Yes to  to move the media and exit both dialog boxes. 8.  In the CommCell® Browser window, expand Storage Resources | Resources | Libraries Libraries |  | CommVault ML6030 x | Media by Groups. Groups. 9.  Select the Cleaning Media entity. Media entity. 10.   In the Summary Window, confirm 10. c onfirm that the selected tapes above were moved successfully. 

Set Scratch Pool Threshold level 1.  In the CommCell® Browser window, expand Storage Resources | Resources | Libraries Libraries |  | CommVault ML6030 x | Media by Groups. Groups. 2.  Right-click on Default Scratch entity Scratch entity and from the pop-up menu select Properties Properties.. The Spare Group Properties dialog box appears. 3.  In the Watermark  for “  for “Spare Spare Media in the Pool”  Pool”  set  set the “ the “Low: Low:”  ”  value  value to 5.

NOTE: In Spare Media Selection Criteria why Criteria why would you think “Use think “Use least reused Media first”  first”  would  would be the default?

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4.  Click OK  to  to save changes and exit the dialog box.

View Contents of a Tape T ape Job contents and details can be viewed for individual tapes. 1.

In the CommCell® Browser window, expand Storage Resources | Resources | Libraries Libraries |  | CommVault SL8500 4 | Media by Groups. Groups. 

2.

Select Assigned Select  Assigned Media Group. Media Group. 

3.

Right-click on a tape in the assigned media group and select View select  View |  | View  View Contents. Contents. 

4.

To review jobs on the tape, use the scroll bar bar to move right and left. Click Close Close to  to exit the window.  

Verifying Media

The Media verification operation is commonly used for the following tasks:  To ensure that the barcode label and the OML (On Media Label) header properly match.

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 To identify potentially damaged tapes.

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 To identify tapes that may belong to a different CommCell® environment.

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 To identify tapes that may have an OML header written by different backup software.

1.  In the CommCell® Browser window, expand Storage Resources | Resources | Libraries Libraries |  | CommVault SL8500 4 | Media by Groups. Groups.

2.  Select Select Assigned  Assigned Media group. Media group. 3.  Right-click on a tape in the assigned media group and select All select  All Tasks | Tasks | Verify  Verify Media. Media. 4.  In the Job Controller window, Controller window, note the Media Inventory operation. Inventory operation. 5.  When the job is complete, a pop-up box reports the results of the media verification job. 6.  Review the information and then click OK  to  to the close the pop-up box.

Exporting Media Individual Export 1.  In the CommCell® Browser window, expand Storage Resources | Resources | Libraries Libraries |  | CommVault SL8500 4 | Media By Groups. Groups.

2.  Select Default Scratch group. Scratch group. 3.  Right-click on a tape in the default scratch group and select All select  All Tasks | Tasks | Export Export.. 4.  In the Export Media pop-up box click OK . 5.  Read the informational message and click OK  to  to close in the Export Media pop-up box.

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Bulk Export 1.  In the CommCell® Browser window, expand Storage Resources | Resources | Libraries Libraries |  | CommVault SL8500 4. 4. 2.  Right-click the CommVault the CommVault SL8500 4 Tape Library | Library  | Export Media. Media. 3.  In the Export Media Wizard pop-up box, select No No for  for the option to use VaultTracker to track movement of your media. Next.. 4.  Click Next

5.  Select two tapes using the Shift Shift  key key and  and then select a third tape while holding the CTRL CTRL  key key..

NOTE:  The behavior for selecting multiple tapes is the same as when selecting multiple folders or files NOTE: using Windows Explorer.

6.  Click Finish Finish..

Deleting and Erasing Data on Tapes Deleting Tapes  A Delete operation is a logical operation operation that deletes the existence existence of the tape from the CommCell CommCell ® environment and Commserve database. The delete operation will not physically erase any data and the tape does not need to be in the library when it is deleted. This is also considered a non-destructive operation which means a tape can only be deleted if no active jobs are currently retained on the tape. This means that the Delete option will not be available for tapes in the  Assigned Media group.

1.  In the CommCell® Browser, expand Storage Resources | Resources | Libraries Libraries |  | CommVault SL8500 4 | Media By Groups.. Groups

2.  Select Default Scratch group. Scratch group. 3.  Right-click on a tape in the default scratch group and select All select  All Tasks | Tasks | Delete Delete.. 4.  Review the “ the “Confirm Confirm Delete”  Delete”  pop-up  pop-up box and then click Yes click  Yes..

NOTE: Tapes can only be deleted if there are no active jobs being retained on the tape. Tapes with active jobs will be placed in the Assigned Media group where the option to delete a tape is not available.

Delete Tape Contents Delete Contents is a logical operation that automatically marks all jobs on a tape as aged. During a Delete Contents operation a confirmation message appears and then the administrator must enter “ enter  “erase erase and reuse media.”  media.”  The  The administrator will then be prompted to select the scratch group to which the tape will be moved. Data on the tape is

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logically marked aged so the data can still be recovered up to the point where the tape is mounted and the OML header is overwritten.

1.  In the CommCell® Browser, expand Storage Resources | Resources | Libraries Libraries |  | CommVault SL8500 4 | Media By Groups.. Groups

2.  Select Select Assigned  Assigned Media group. Media group. select  All Tasks | Tasks | Delete Contents. Contents. 3.  Right-click on a tape in the assigned media group and select All 4.  In the “ the “Delete Delete Content Warning !!”  !!”  pop-up  pop-up box, review the warning message and then click Yes click Yes..

5.  In the “ the “Enter Enter Confirmation text”  text ”  pop-up  pop-up box type erase and reuse media and media and then click OK . 6.  In the “ the “Delete Delete Contents and Move Media”  Media ”  pop-up  pop-up box select the Default Scratch pool and pool and then click OK .

NOTE: The Delete Contents task is a destructive operation – operation – this  this will logically mark all jobs on the tape aged and move the tape into a scratch pool.

Erasing Tapes Erase Media is a physical operation that will mount the tape and overwrite the OML header and optionally the entire content. Once the header is overwritten data cannot be recovered using any method Commvault Comm vault® software provides. This is considered a destructive operation so it cannot be performed on any tapes where jobs are actively being retained. The option to erase media will be available in all logical groups except the Assigned Media group.

1.  In the CommCell® Browser, expand Storage Resources | Resources | Libraries Libraries |  | CommVault SL8500 4 | Media By Groups.. Groups

2.  Select the Default Scratch group. Scratch group. 3.  Right-click on a tape in the default scratch group and select Options Options |  | Erase Spare Media. Media. 4.  Select Quick Erase and Erase and then click OK .

NOTE: Quick Erase erases the header of the tape. Full Erase overwrites the entire contents of the tape.

5.  In the “ the “Erase Erase Media Warning!!”  Warning!!”  pop-up  pop-up box, review the information and then click Yes click  Yes.. 6.  In the Job Controller tab, note the Erase Media operation.

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Configure Spare Media Selection Criteria

1.  In the CommCell® Browser, expand the Storage Resources | Libraries  Libraries entity.  entity. 2.  Expand the CommVault SL8500 4 library and expand the Media by Groups section Groups section of the library. 3.  Right-click on the Default Scratch entity Scratch entity and select Properties Properties.. 4.  Change the “Watermark for Spare Media in the Pool” to 10 10.. 5.  Click the Use media based on Capacity radio Capacity  radio button and confirm that the option to “Fill lower capacity Media first” is selected.  selected.  6.  Click OK  to  to accept the changes.

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Lab 4: Deduplicati Deduplication on Configuration Create a Global Deduplication Policy

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1.  In the CommCell® Browser, expand the Storage Resources entity. 2.  Right-click Deduplication Engines and select New Global Deduplication Policy. Policy . 3.  Select/Enter the following information for this new global policy: a.  Name:

Global Deduplication Policy  Policy  

b.  Library:

Basic Disk (MA)  (MA) 

c.  Media Agent: ea-2016-ma d.  DO NOT check the box to enable the “ the  “Enable Enable use of Partitioned Deduplication Database”  Database ”  option.  option. e.  For the location of the DDB select the ea-2016-ma MediaAgent. Enter: E:\New_Global_DDB1 E:\New_Global_DDB1 for  for the path. 4.  Click Next Next and  and review the Summary window. 5.  Click Finish Finish to  to complete the setup of a Global Deduplication Policy.

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Configure Operation Window for Physical Pruning

Set up a DDB pruning operation window 1.  In the CommCell® Browser, expand the Storage Resources | Resources | MediaAgents MediaAgents entity.  entity. 2.  Right-click the ea-2016-cs MediaAgent and select All select  All Tasks | Operation Window. Window. 3.  Click Click Add  Add and  and configure the following information: a.  Name: DDB Pruning  Pruning  b.  Operations: check the Data Pruning box c.  Days of week: week: check each box for for all weekdays (M-F) d.  Do not run intervals: intervals: Click Start Date and Date and leave default e.  Click Click Add  Add   f.  Start Time: 7:00 pm  pm  g.  End Time: 11:00 pm  pm  4.  Click OK  to  to save the details. 5.  Click OK  to  to save the new Operation Rule 6.  Click Close Close to  to exit the window.

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Configure DDB Verification Options

1.  In the CommCell® Browser, expand the Storage Resources | Resources | Deduplication  Deduplication Engines entity. Engines entity. 2.  Expand the Dedupe Disk/Primary copy, copy,  right-click SIDB_Dedupe Disk_Primary….. and select All select All Tasks | Run Data Verification. Verification. 3.  From the General tab of the Data Verification window, Verification window, select ea-2016-ma ea-2016-ma  for the “Select source MediaAgent.”   4.  Click the Job Initiation tab Initiation tab and select Schedule Schedule then  then click Configure Configure.. 5.  Name the schedule DDB Verification. Verification. 6.  Create a scheduled job to run weekly on Sundays Sundays at  at 8:00am 8:00am.. 7.  Click OK  to  to create the schedule. 8.  Click OK  to  to close the Data Verification Window.

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Module 3: Storage Policy Policies and Retention Retention Lab 1: Creating Storage Policies Create a New Standard Storage Policy Create a Standard Storage Policy using a Disk Library Policies.. Right-click on Storage Policies | New Storage Policy. Policy. The 1.  In the CommCell® Browser, expand Policies Create Storage Policy Wizard dialog box appears. 2.  Create a storage policy using the following information: a.  Storage Policy Type:

Data Protection and Archiving

b.  Storage Policy Name:

Simple Disk

c.  Use existing Global Deduplication Policy: No Policy: No   d.  Library:

Basic Disk (MA)

e.  MediaAgent:

ea-2016-ma   ea-2016-ma

f.  Number of Device Streams:

50 (Default)  (Default) 

g.  iDataAgent Backup Data:

15 Days/2 Cycles  Cycles 

h.   Accept the default setting for Software Encryption  Encryption  i. 

Deduplication for Primary copy:

Deselect Yes Deselect  Yes (Deduplication  (Deduplication will not be enabled)

3.  Click Next Next and  and review selections. 4.  Click Finish Finish to  to create the storage policy and close the wizard. The new Simple Disk  storage  storage policy appears in the summary list of storage policies.

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Create a Deduplication Storage Policy 1.  In the CommCell® Browser, expand the Storage Resources | Storage Policies entity. Policies entity. 2.  Right-click Storage Policies and Policies and select New Storage Policy. Policy. 3.  Select/Enter the following information for this new policy: a.  Storage Policy Type:

Data Protection and Archiving  Archiving 

b.  Name: Deduplicated  Data Deduplicated Data   c.  Use Existing Global Deduplication Policy: No Policy: No   d.  Library:

Basic Disk (MA)  (MA) 

e.  Media Agent:

ea-2016-ma   ea-2016-ma

f.   Accept the defaults for Device Streams and Streams and Aging  Aging Rules.  Rules.  g.   Accept the default setting setting for Encryption. h.  Check the option to enable Deduplication by selecting Yes selecting Yes  on the “Do you want to enable Deduplication for the primary copy?” window.  window.  i. 

For the location of the DDB, select ea-2016-ma as the MediaAgent and type E:\New_DDB for the path.

4.  Review the Summary window Click Next. Next.   5.  Click Finish Finish to  to complete the setup of a Deduplicated Storage Policy.

Create Standard Storage Policy with Global Deduplication 1.  In the CommCell® Browser, expand the Policies | Storage Policies entity. Policies entity. 2.  Right-click Storage Policies and Policies and select New Storage Policy. Policy . 3.  Select/Enter the following information for this new policy: a.  Storage Policy Type:

Data Protection and Archiving  Archiving  

b.  Name:

New Policy with Global DDB  DDB  

c.  Use Existing Global Deduplication Policy: Yes Policy: Yes   d.  Enable Client Side Deduplication:  Deduplication:  

Yes   Yes

e.  Use Existing Global Deduplication Policy: Policy: Accept the default.  default.   f.   Accept the defaults for Device Streams and Streams and Aging  Aging Rules.  Rules.  g.  Review the Summary Summary window.  window. h.  Click Finish Finish to  to complete the setup of a Storage Policy with access to global deduplication.

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Create a Standard Storage Policy using a Tape library 1.  In the CommCell® Browser, expand Policies. Right-click on Policies |Storage |Storage Policies entity Policies entity and Select New Storage Policy. The Create Storage Policy Wizard dialog box appears. 2.  Right-click Storage Policies and Policies and select New Storage Policy  Policy  3.  Create a storage policy using the following information: a.  Storage Policy Type: b.  Storage Policy Name:

Data Protection and Archiving  Archiving  Direct to Tape

c.  Use Existing Global Deduplication Policy: No Policy: No   d.  Library:

CommVault SL8500 4

e.  MediaAgent:

ea-2016-cs   ea-2016-cs

f.  Drive Pool:

DrivePool(ea-2016-cs)x   DrivePool(ea-2016-cs)x

g.  Scratch Pool:

Default Scratch  Scratch 

h.  Number of Device Streams:

2 

i. 

Infinite   Infinite

iDataAgent Backup Data:

 j.  Hardware Compression:

Verify Hardware Compression check box is enabled

4.  Click Next Next and  and review selections. 5.  Click Finish Finish to  to create the storage policy and close the wizard. The new Direct to Tape storage Tape storage policy appears in the summary list of storage policies.

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Configure Storage Policy Properties 1.  In the CommCell® Browser, expand the Policies | Storage Policies entity. Right-click the Simple Disk storage policy and from the pop-up menu select Properties Properties.. The Storage Policy Properties: Simple Disk dialog box appears.

2.  Change Storage Policy Name  Name to Simple Disk (ea-2016-ma). (ea-2016-ma).

NOTE: The (ea-2016-ma) represents the controlling MediaAgent. A best practice would be to embed intelligence about the storage policy in its name. Knowing which MediaAgent controls the library is an example of this.

3.  Click OK  to  to save and exit the properties dialog box.

Edit Storage Policy Copy Properties

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1.  In the CommCell  Browser, expand Policies Policies |  | Storage Policies | Policies | Simple Disk (ea-2016-ma). (ea-2016-ma). 2.  Right-click on Primary storage policy copy and from the pop-up menu select Properties Properties.. The Copy Properties dialog box appears. 3.  Click the Retention Retention tab  tab a.  For Basic Retention Rule for All Backups click the radio button for “Retain for” and set the retention for 30 Days/4 Cycles. Cycles. 4.  Click through the remaining tabs tabs and view the information/options available on each tab. 5.  Click OK to save and exit the dialog box.

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Lab 2: Creating Secondary Copies There are two types of secondary copies:   Synchronous 

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Synchronous Copy  A Synchronous Copy defines a secondary secondary copy to synchronize protected data with a source copy. All valid data (jobs that completed successfully) written to the source copy is copied to the synchronous copy via an update process called an  Auxiliary Copy operation. operation. This means that all full, incremental, differential, differential, transaction log, or archive jobs from a source source copy will be copied to the synchronous copy. Synchronous copies are useful when you want a consistent point -in-time copy for any point within the cycle of all protected data available for restore.

Selective Copy  A Selective Copy allows automatic automatic selection of specific full backups or manual selection of any backup for additional additional protection. Selective copy options allow the time based automatic selection of: all, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, half yearly, and/or yearly full backups. Advanced options allow you to generate gener ate selective copies based on a frequency of number of cycles, hours, days, weeks, or months. You can also choose the Do Not Automatically Select Jobs option Jobs  option which allows you to manually select jobs to copy to the Selective Copy.

Create a new secondary copy 1.  In the CommCell® Browser, expand Policies | Storage Policies. Policies.  2.  Right-click on Simple Disk (ea-2016-ma) storage policy and from menu select All select  All Tasks | Create New Copy.. The  Copy Properties dialog box appears. Copy 3.  Create a secondary storage policy copy using the following information: a.  General tab: i.  Copy Name:

Secondary Offsite Copy  Copy 

ii.  Library:

Commvault ML6030 x (Created in previous activity)

iii.  MediaAgent:

ea-2016-cs   ea-2016-cs

iv.  Drive Pool:

DrivePool(ea-2016-cs)x   DrivePool(ea-2016-cs)x

v.  Scratch Pool:

Default Scratch  Scratch 

b.  Retention tab: tab: i.  Select Basic retention Rule for All Backups: Backups : Retain for 90 Days 4 Cycles Cycles   4.  Click OK  to  to save the new secondary copy.

Best Practice for your environment: Synchronous Secondary copies can be alternate source   copies for any other secondary copy in the storage policy. If a secondary copy is created, an auxiliary copy job should be scheduled. Having an unscheduled secondary secondary copy will affect retention retention on the the source copy.

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Create a Selective Secondary Copy using Alternate Source 1.  In the CommCell® Browser, expand Policies | Storage Policies. 2.  Right-click on Simple Disk   (ea-2016-cs) storage policy and from the menu select All select All Tasks | Create New Copy. Copy. The  Copy Properties dialog box appears. 3.  Create a Selective secondary storage policy copy using the following information: a.  General tab: i.  Copy Name:

Selective Monthly Offsite Copy  Copy 

ii.  Select

Selective Copy check box  box 

iii.  Library:

Commvault SL8500 4  4 

iv.  MediaAgent:

ea-2016-cs   ea-2016-cs

v.  Drive Pool:

DrivePool(ea-2016-cs) x   x   

vi.  Scratch Pool:

Default Scratch

b.  Retention tab: i.  Select Basic retention Rule for All Backups: Retain for 365 365 Days  Days 2 Cycles c.  Selective Copy tab: i.  For the option, “ Automatically  Automatically select Full Full Backups at frequency: frequency:”” choose  choose Monthly Fulls. Fulls. d.  Copy Policy tab: i.  Uncheck (deselect) “ (deselect) “ All  All Backups”  Backups” . ii.  Select Select “  “Specify Specify Source for Auxiliary Copy:” Copy:” and choose  choose Secondary Secondary  (created by previous activity) e.  Media tab: i.  Select the box for “ for  “Combine Combine source data streams to:” to:” and set to  to 1  ii.  Select the box for “ for  “Mark Mark Media to be Erased After Recycling”  Recycling ” . iii.   A Confirm dialog box appears. Click Yes Click Yes.. f.   Advanced tab: tab:   i.   View Data Encryption Encryption options. 4.  Click OK  to  to save the new secondary copy. 5.  Click OK  to  to the manually picked warning. 6.  Click Click Yes  Yes to  to confirm this copy will use a different source copy than the primary copy.

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Create a Global Secondary Copy To consolidate backup jobs from multiple storage policy copies to a single tape media set, you can create a global secondary copy. This is only supported when sending jobs to tape libraries.

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1.  In the CommCell® Browser, expand the Policies | Storage Policies entity. Policies entity. 2.  Right-click Storage Policies and select New Global Secondary Copy Policy. Policy . 3.  For the Global Secondary Copy enter the following information: a.  Copy Name:

Global Secondary Copy

b.  Library:

Commvault SL8500 4

c.  Media Agent: d.  DrivePool:

ea-2016-cs  ea-2016-cs  DrivePool(ea-2016-cs) x   x   

e.  Scratch Pool for Primary Copy: Default Scratch  Scratch  f.  Number of Device Streams:

2 

g.  Hardware Compression:

Keep default

h.  Review the Summary Summary window.  window. 4.  Click Finish Finish to  to complete. 5.  The new Global Secondary Copy appears Copy appears in the CommCell Browser.

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Create a Secondary Copy using a Global Secondary Copy

1.  In the CommCell® Browser, expand the Policies | Storage Policies entity. Policies entity. 2.  Right-click the Dedupe Disk  storage  storage policy and select All select  All Tasks | Create New Copy. Copy . 3.  For the Secondary Copy enter the following information on the General General Tab:  Tab: a.  Copy Name: Long Term offsite copy  copy   b.  Check the Use Global Secondary Copy Policy check box.  box.  c.  Confirm the correct policy is listed in the drop-down box (Global Secondary Copy). 4.  Click OK  to  to complete the configuration.

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Change a Secondary Copy Type

1.  In the CommCell® Browser, expand the Policies | Storage Policies entity. Policies entity. 2.  Select the Dedupe Disk  storage  storage policy and select Long Term Offsite Copy.  Copy.  3.  Right-click the copy and select Properties. Properties.   4.  Change the copy type from synchronous to selective by checking the Selective copy check copy check box on the General General   tab. 5.  From the Selective Copy tab, Copy tab, change the Automatically the  Automatically select Full Backups Backups at frequency from frequency from Weekly Fulls to Fulls  to Monthly Fulls by Fulls by choosing it in the pull-down box. 6.  Click OK  to  to complete the changes. 7.  Click OK  to  to the manually picked warning. 8.  Click Yes to the pop-up box confirming the change of the date for the Backups.

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Configure Secondary Copy Encryption Settings

1.  In the CommCell® Browser, expand the Policies | Storage Policies entity. Policies entity. 2.  Expand the Dedupe Disk  storage  storage policy and select the Long Term Offsite Copy. Copy . 3.  Right-click the copy and select Properties Properties.. 4.  Click the Advanced the Advanced tab  tab and select Re-encrypt data using selected cipher. cipher . 5.  From the Data Encryption Algorithm section Algorithm section click on the pull-down arrow for Cypher Cypher and  and select GOST GOST.. 6.  Notice the Key Length defaults to 256 for GOST. 7.  Click OK  to  to complete the configuration. 8.  Click OK  to  to the manually picked warning.

When sending tape media offsite, it is recommended to secure access by using encryption.

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Lab 3: Deduplicati Deduplication on Enabled Storage Polices Polices Create a Secondary Storage Policy Copy using the Global Deduplication Policy 1.  In the CommCell® Browser, expand the Policies | Storage Policies entity entity.. 2.  Right-click on the Simple Disk (ea-2016-ma) storage policy and select All select All Tasks | Create New Copy. Copy. The  Copy Properties dialog box appears. 3.  Create a secondary storage policy copy using the following information a.  Copy Name: Secondary Deduplicated Copy  Copy   b.  Select the Checkbox Use Global Deduplication Policy: Policy: Global Global  Deduplication Policy  Policy  4.  Click OK  to  to save the new secondary copy. 5.  Expand the Simple Disk (ea-2016-ma) storage (ea-2016-ma) storage policy.  6.  Right-click Secondary Deduplicated Copy and Copy and select Properties Properties..  7.  Select the Deduplication tab (If the Deduplication tab is unavailable, cancel out of the Properties Page.

Select the View the View tab  tab and refresh the screen. Select the Secondary Dedupe | properties and properties  and select the Deduplication tab.) Deduplication  tab.)  a.  Note that Enable DASH Copy  Copy (Transfer only unique data segments to target) is target)  is selected. b.  Select Network Optimized Copy 8.  Click OK  to  to save and exit the dialog box.

Best Practice for your environment: Global Deduplication Policies are best used u sed for secondary  storage policy copies to fan-in/consolidate remote remote copies to a central central location. For  example, data from local sales offices copied to a central corporate site.

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Module 4: Client Administration Lab 1: Client Administrative Tasks Check client connectivity (check readiness) Connectivity to a client and all Storage Policy data paths for configured subclients within the client can be checked and reported on®at the client level. This is actually a mini version of the CommCell Readiness report. It ensures that the Commserve  server can communicate with the client machine. It also checks data path connectivity to all MediaAgent and library paths for Storage Policies that are associated with subclients configured for the client.

1.  In the CommCell® Browser, expand Client Computers. Computers. 2.  From Client Computers, right-click on the ea-2016-ma ea-2016-ma client  client and select All select All Tasks | Tasks | Check Readiness. Readiness. 3.  In the Client Connectivity pop-up box, review the information. 4.  Click Show Details for Details for a detailed readiness report. 5.  Click Close to close the details for the ea-2016-ma.   6.  Click Close Close to  to close the Check Readiness window.  

View client schedules Client schedules can be viewed and edited from the client, agent, data set and subclient levels. When a specific level in the client tree is selected, all schedules at the selected level and all child object schedules will be displayed.

1.  In the CommCell® Browser, expand Client Computers. Computers. 2.  Right-click on the ea-2016-cs ea-2016-cs client  client and select View select  View |  | Schedules Schedules.. 3.  Right-click on the System Created… schedule in the Schedules window, and review drop-down options.

Client schedule key points:   Schedules can be viewed at the client, agent, dataset and subclient levels.  

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View client job history Job history for data protection and restore operations can be viewed from the client, agent, backup set and subclient level.

Job history can be used to perform the following:    View status of backup and restore restore jobs. 

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1.  In the CommCell® Browser, expand Client Computers | Computers | ea-2016-ma ea-2016-ma.. 2.  Right-click on the File System agent System agent and select View select  View |  | Backup History. History. The Backup History Filter pop-up box appears. 3.  Review options and then click OK . 4.  Right-click on a backup job and job and review drop-down box options.

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Lab 2: Client Properties The following section highlights configuration options that can be accessed from the client properties.

 Accessing Client Properties Properties 1.  In the CommCell® Browser, expand Client Computers. Computers. 2.  Right-click on the ea-2016-cs client and select Properties Properties.. The Client Computer Properties window appears. 3.  Review configuration options in the General General,, Version  Version,, Security Security and  and Activity  Activity Control tabs. Control tabs. 4.  Click Click Advanced  Advanced to  to review advanced configuration tabs. 5.  Click Cancel Cancel to  to close the Advanced Client Properties window. 6.  Click Cancel Cancel to  to close the Client Computer Properties window.

Client Update Status 1.  In the CommCell® Browser, expand Client Computers. Computers. 2.  Right-click on the ea-2016-cs client and select Properties Properties.. The Client Computer Properties window appears. 3.  Select the Version the Version tab,  tab, and review service pack and package update information.

NOTE: Package update status will be: Needs update, update, Up To date, date, or Ahead or Ahead of cache. cache.

4.  Click Cancel Cancel to  to close the Client Computer Properties window.

Configure Client Activity Control Data protection and data recovery jobs can be enabled or disabled in the  Activity Control tab Control tab in the Client Properties. Properties. If activity is disabled an Enable after a Delay button Delay  button displays. This is used to automatically enable the activity on a specific date and time. Client activity control is useful when a client is offline, since any scheduled operations are by default ignored if activity is disabled. 1.  In the CommCell® Browser, expand Client Computers. Computers. 2.  Right-click on the ea-2016-cs client and select Properties Properties.. The Client Computer Properties window appears. 3.  In the Activity the Activity Control tab, Control tab, deselect the Enable Restore check Restore check box. 4.  Click Enable after a Delay. Delay. Review the available options. Set the time for 10 minutes from the current time and then click OK . 5.  Click OK  to  to save and exit the Client Computer Properties window.

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Lab 3: Configuring Subclients Subclients are used to define data that is protected in a containerized format. Each subclient container manages specific content within a data set. Each data set has one or more subclients.

Key points for subclients:  

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Subclient content can be defined as drives, folders, files or UNC paths.

   A storage policy must be defined defined before a data protection job can run.

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Scripts can be run at various stages during a job.

 

Global and local filters can be configured.

 

IntelliSnap® technology can be used to perform snapshot backups on supported storage arrays.

 

Data transfer options include compression, deduplication and encryption.

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Defining Subclient Content 1.  From your CVLab Launchpad, verify that the MediaAgent virtual machine is running. ®

2.  In the CommCell  Browser, expand Client Computers | Computers | ea-2016-ma ea-2016-ma |  | File System and System and select defaultBackupSet.. defaultBackupSet 3.  Right-click on defaultBackupSet defaultBackupSet and  and select All select All Tasks | New Subclient. Subclient. The Subclient Properties dialog box appears. 4.  Configure the new subclient using the following information: a.  General tab: i.  Subclient Name: Mission Critical Data ii.   Verify VSS option: For Locked files only is enabled. b.  Content tab: i.  Click Browse Browse,, expand the file tree and select C:\Users\Student\My Documents\Mission Critical folder. ii.  Click Click Add  Add then  then click Close. Close. c.  Storage Device tab: i.  Storage Policy: Select Dedupe Disk. ii.  Click the Advanced the Advanced button. d.   Advanced Options Options tab: i.  Select Scan using: Recursive Scan. Scan. We are choosing this method because we are working with a small number of files. ii.  Click OK  to  to close the dialog box. 5.  Click OK  to  to create the Subclient. A Backup Schedule dialog box appears. 6.  Select Do Not Schedule. Schedule. (Scheduling will be addressed later in this guide)

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7.  Click OK  to  to set the option to not schedule and exit. 8.  The Subclient Mission Critical Data appears in the Content tab.

Configuring Filters Configure Global Filters 1.  On the CommCell® Console’s Ribbon Toolbar click Toolbar click the Home ribbon tab  tab and select the Control the Control Panel icon. The Control Panel dialog box appears. 2.  In the Control Panel’s  Panel’s Data section, click the Global Filters icon. The Global Filters dialog box appears. 3.  In the Global Filters Category  Category list, select Windows Filters. Filters. 4.  Click Click Add  Add.. The Enter Path Path  dialog box appears. Enter the following in the Enter Path  Path dialog box text list: a.  *:\**\*.cmd b.  *.bat c.  *.tmp *.tmp  

NOTE: Path format andocumentation d wildcard usage, as Content, well as Suggested filters, filters, can beExpressions. found in Commv Commvault’s ault’s   Books Onlineand under Filters, and and Regular  Regular Expressions .

5.  Click OK  to  to save the entries and exit the Enter Path dialog box. The entered paths should appear in the Exclude Global Filters list of the Global Filters dialog box. 6.  To adjust the entry for *.tmp; highlight it and click Modify Modify.. A single line Enter Path dialog box appears. 7.  Replace *.tmp with *:\**\temp\* *:\**\temp\*   8.  Click OK  to  to save and exit the Enter Path dialog box. 9.  In the top right of the Global Filters dialog box, select Use Global Filters on all SubClients. SubClients. 10.  Click OK  to  to save and exit the Global Filters dialog box. 11.  Click the X  the X  to  to close the Control Panel.

Best Practice for your environment: Test your filters by doing an incremental backup. Look at   the list of protected files to see if you are still backing up objects you don’t need don’t need or missing objects that you do need.

Configure Subclient Filters

Step-by-Step 1.  In the CommCell® Browser, expand Client Computers | ea-2016-ma | File System | defaultBackupSet defaultBackupSet..

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2.  In the Summary window right-click the Mission Critical subclient (created in a previous activity) and select Properties.. The Subclient Properties of Mission Critical dialog box appears. Properties 3.  In the Subclient Properties of Mission Critical  Critical dialog box, select the Filters tab. 4.  For Include Global Filters  Filters select Use Cell level policy. policy. Note the Global filters entered in the previous activity are listed in the Exclude the Exclude these files/folders/patterns: section. 5.  Click Add Click Add,, an Enter Path dialog box appears. 6.  Enter the following: a.  *:\**\Logs\** 7.  Click OK  to  to save and exit the t he Enter path dialog box. The entered path appears in the “ the “Exclude Exclude these files/folders/patterns”  files/folders/patterns ”  section. 8.  For Include Global Filters select OFF OFF.. Note the Global filters entered in the previous activity are removed. Return the setting for Include Global Filters back  to to Use  Use Cell level policy. policy . 9.  Click OK  to  to save and exit the Properties dialog box.

Best Practice: Use Global filters for ease of management/maintenance. At the subclient subclient level use exceptions to limit the application application of Global filters. Additionally, it is recommended to filter application and data files if using an application iDataAgent. For example, filter the the SQL Database and Log volumes if using the SQL iDataAgent.

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Lab 4: Enable Client Job Throttling Throttling

Step-by-Step 1.  From the Ribbon Bar, select the Configuration Configuration ribbon  ribbon tab. 2.  Click on Job Management icon Management icon and check the Enable Job Throttle at Client Level check Level  check box. 3.  Click OK  to  to accept the configuration.

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Configure Client Job Throttling

1.  In the CommCell® Browser, expand the Client Computers entity Computers entity | ea-2016-ma ea-2016-ma client.  client. 2.  Right-click the ea-2016-ma ea-2016-ma client  client and select Properties Properties.. 3.  From the Client Computer Properties window, Click Advanced Click  Advanced button.  button. The Advanced Client Properties window appears. 4.  Click the Job Configuration tab Configuration tab and check the Enable Job Throttle check Throttle check box. 5.  Confirm that Data Threshold is Threshold is set to 1. 6.  Click OK  to  to accept the changes. 7.  Click OK  again  again to exit the Client Properties page. 8.  From the ea-2016-ma ea-2016-ma |  | File System | System | defaultBackupSet, right-click and select All select All Tasks | Backup All Subclients.. The Backup All Subclients pop-up appears. Subclients 9.  Click Click Yes  Yes to  to accept the backup of all subclients. 10.  Accept the defaults to initiate the jobs immediately. 11.  Accept the Error pop-up indicating indicating the default subclient is not configured configured with a Storage Policy. 12.  From the Job Controller window, you will see one or more of the jobs in a queued status with the following message: Maximum number of data jobs allowed to run has been reached for this client. client . This is a result of enabling the Job Throttling option above.

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Module 5: Data Protection and Recovery Lab 1: Scheduling a Data Data Protection Protection Job 1.  In the CommCell® Browser, expand Policies. 2.  Right-click on Schedule Policies and select New Schedule Policy. Policy. The New Schedule Policy  Policy dialog box appears. 3.  Create a Schedule Policy using the following information: a.  General tab: i.  Name:

Saturday Full – Daily Incremental – On New Tape

ii.  Type:

Data Protection  Protection 

iii.   Agent Type: Type:

Click the pull-down menu and from from the list, check the Files check box.

4.   At the bottom of the window, click Add. click Add. The Backup Task Options  Options dialog box appears. a.  Schedule Pattern tab: i.  Schedule Name:

Saturday Full  Full 

ii.  Select:

Weekly   Weekly

iii.  Start Time:

8:00 pm  pm 

iv.  On these days:

Saturday   Saturday

b.  Backup Options tab: i.  Select Backup Type:

Full

5.  Click the Advanced the Advanced button.  button. The Advanced Backup Options dialog box appears. 6.  Select the Media Media Tab  Tab and check the options for Start New Media and and Mark  Mark Media Full On Success. Success.

NOTE: The Allow Other Schedules To Use This Media Set option will append additional Subclient Full  jobs to this media. It will eventually mark the media Full and not appendable.

7.  Click OK to close the dialog box. 8.  Click OK  to  to save and exit the Backup Task Options dialog box. The newly created schedule pattern appears in the Tasks list. 9.  Click Click Add  Add.. The Backup Task Options dialog box appears. a.  Schedule Pattern tab: i.  Schedule Name:

Daily Incremental

ii.  Select:

Weekly   Weekly

iii.  Start Time:

8:00 pm  pm 

iv.  On these days:

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and and Friday  Friday  

b.  Backup Options tab:

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10.  Click OK  to  to save and exit the Backup Task Options dialog box. The newly created schedule pattern appears in the Tasks list. 11.  Click on the Associations tab and enter the following information. a.   Associations tab | Edit Edit sub-tab: i.  Select the following Client Computers:  , ea-2016-orcl, and ea-2016-shpt  ea-2016-shpt  b.   View sub-tab: i.  Confirm all selected clients appear. 12.  Click OK  to  to save the new schedule policy. The new policy appears in the Schedule Policies Summary list.

Best Practice: Use schedule policies instead of individual client/subclient  schedules whenever possible. Having all schedules schedules in a single location enables easier  management.

Create a Laptop Job Schedule 1.  In the CommCell® Browser, expand Policies. 2.  Right-click on Schedule Policies and select New Schedule Policy. Policy. The New Schedule Policy  Policy dialog box appears. 3.  Create a schedule policy using the following information: a.  General tab: i.  Name:

Laptop Automatic  Automatic 

ii.  Type:

Data Protection  Protection 

iii.   Agent Type: Type:

Click the pull-down menu and check Files.

iv.  Click the Select link on the top of the t he list box to exit the list. v.  Description:

Laptop Schedule Policy

4.  Click Click Add  Add.. The Backup Task Options dialog box appears. a.  Schedule Pattern tab: i.  Schedule Name: ii.  Select:

Laptop Automatic  Automatic   Automatic    Automatic

b.  Laptop sub-tab, sub-tab, i.  Select:

Use only wired network  

ii.  Select

Start  only if the computer is running on A/C power. Start power.

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in the Tasks list. a.  Select the Associations the Associations tab tab b.  Edit sub-tab: i.  Select: Laptop Clients beneath beneath  Client Computer Groups. c.   View sub-tab: sub-tab: i.  Confirm selected Client Computer Group appears. 6.  Click OK  to  to save the new schedule policy. The new policy appears in the Schedule Policies Summary list.

Best Practice: Laptop connectivity/availability is different than servers. As such, the use use of automatic schedules for laptops makes for more efficient use of resources and resul results ts in more effecti effective ve reporting for jobs. Using scheduled backups will result in reports reports showing failures due due to unavailability of the laptop.

Configure Automatic Log Backups 1.  In the CommCell® Browser, expand the Policies | Schedule Policies. Policies. 2.  Right-click Schedule Policies and Policies and select New Schedule Policy. Policy. 3.  Enter the following information for the Schedule Policy: a.  General Tab: i.  Name:  Auto Log File Protection Protection   ii.  Type: Data Protection  Protection  i.   Agent Type: Click the pull-down menu menu and check SQL Server. b.  Click Click Add  Add.. The Backup Task Options dialog box appears iii.  Schedule Name:  Automatic SQL log backups backups   iv.  Select:  Automatic  Automatic   c.  Databases sub-tab  sub-tab  v.  SQL: option, click the option Start backup when the log file is vi.  % utilized:

85   85

vii.  Click OK  to  to accept d.   Associations Tab: viii.  From Client Computers select ea-2016-ma ea-2016-ma |  | SQL Server  Server  4.  Click OK  to  to save the new Schedule policy.

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Lab 2: Managing Jobs Pause the Job Scheduler 1.   At the very top of the CommCell® Browser, right-click on ea-2016-cs ea-2016-cs and  and select Properties Properties.. The CommCell Properties dialog box appears. 2.  Select the Activity the Activity Control tab Control tab

a.  Clear the Enable Scheduler  Scheduler box. An Enable after a Delay… control button appears. b.  Click Enable after a Delay…. Delay….   The Enable Scheduler dialog box appears. c.  In the Enable Scheduler dialog box, check the Automatically the Automatically Enable  Enable at the following time  time  check box.

d.  In the time window, select the minutes and set them to the current time in minutes mi nutes + 2. e.  Click OK  to  to save and exit the Enable Scheduler dialog box. The set time appears in the Activity Control tab next to the Enable after a Delay… button.  button.   Properties dialog box. 2.  Click OK to save and exit the CommCell Properties 

Best Practice for your environment: Enabled/Disabled Activity at the client client level is reflected in the ® Client icons in the CommCell Browser. A red arrow or cross will appear appear over an object when its activity has been disabled.

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Lab 3: Backup and and Restore Individual File in Place Part I: Backup the Mission Critical Subclient 1.  In the CommCell® Browser, expand Client Computers | Computers | ea-2016-ma ea-2016-ma |  | File System | System | defaultBackupSet.. defaultBackupSet 2.  In the Summary window right-click on the Mission Critical Data subclient (created in a previous previous activity) activity) and select Backup Backup.. The “ The “Backup Backup Options for Subclient: Mission Critical Data”  Data”  dialog box appears. 3.  In the dialog box, click Advanced click Advanced.. The Advanced Backup Options dialog box appears. 4.  Click through all the tabs in the Advanced Backup Options  Options dialog box and examine the options available. available.  5.  Click Cancel to exit the Advanced Backup Options  Options  dialog box. 6.  Click OK to start the backup and exit the “ the  “Backup Backup Options for Subclient: Mission Critical”  Critical ”  dialog box. 7.  To view the job progress, click on the Job Controller tab. 8.  Right-click on the job in the Job Controller  Controller  and select Detail… for more detailed job information. Click through all the tabs and examine the information provided.

Part II: Restore In-Place 1.  Once the backup job completes, in the CommCell® Browser, expand Client Computers | Computers | ea-2016-ma ea-2016-ma |  | File System client. 2.  Right-click the defaultBackupSet defaultBackupSet and  and select All select  All Tasks | Tasks | Browse and Restore. Restore. The “ The “Browse Browse and Restore Options “  “ dialog  dialog box appears. 3.  Select Latest Backup and click View click View Content. Content. The Client: ea-2016-ma (Latest Data) window Data) window appears. 4.  In the browse tree of the Client: ea-2016-ma (Latest Backup) tab window, expand defaultBackupSet defaultBackupSet |  | C: | Users | student | Documents and select Mission Critical. Critical. The list of files backed up from the Mission Critical folder appears to the right. 5.  Select the box next to the “ the “ A  A Case for RAID 3.docx”  3.docx”  file.  file. 6.  Click Recover All Selected… Selected… The Restore Options for All Selected Items dialog Items dialog box appears. 7.  From the “ the “Restore Restore Options for All Selected Items’  Items’  dialog  dialog box click OK  to  to start the restore job. 8.  To watch the job progress, click the Job Controller tab. Controller tab. Right click the restore job and select Detail…  Examine the information shown under the various tabs.

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Browse and Restore folder Out-of-Place 1.  In the CommCell® Browser, expand Client Computers | Computers | ea-2016-ma ea-2016-ma |  | File System. System. 2.  Right-click the defaultBackupSet defaultBackupSet and  and select All select  All Tasks | Tasks | Browse and Restore Restore.. The “ The “Browse Browse and Restore Options”  Options ”  dialog  dialog box appears. (You can also use the Latest Data browse window from the previous task if still open.) 3.  In the “ the “Browse Browse and Restore Options”  Options”  dialog  dialog box, select Latest Backup and Backup and click View click View Content. Content. The Client: ea-2016-ma (Latest Backup) window appears. 4.  In the browse tree of the Client: ea-2016-ma (Latest Backup) tab window, expand defaultBackupSet defaultBackupSet |  | C: | Users | student | Documents and select the Mission Critical folder Critical folder by clicking the box next to the folder. The folder and all the files shows selected (blue) status. 5.   At the bottom of of the window click click Recover All Selected…  The “ The “Restore Restore Options for All  Selected Items”  Items”   dialog box appears. 6.  In the Restore Options for All Selected Items dialog dialog box configure the the restore job using the following information: a.  Clear (deselect)

Restore to same folder  folder  

b.  Destination Client: c.  Specify destination path: (browse)

ea-2016-ma  ea-2016-ma  C:\restores   C:\restores

7.  Click OK to start the restore job. 8.  To watch the job progress, click on the Job Controller tab. 9.   At this point you can look at Windows Explorer Explorer on your ea-2016-ma virtual machine to watch the restore create the folder and recover the files from the Mission Critical folder.

Best Practice: Restoring data out of place can be done to prevent data  from inadvertently being overwritten. Out of place restores can can be done to any client with a compatible agent installed. installed.  Additionally, for file system data, UNC paths paths can be used to restore restore  data to any share location.

Restore by Jobs 1.  In the CommCell® Browser, expand Client Computers | ea-2016-ma  ea-2016-ma |  | File  File System. System. 2.  Right-click on the defaultBackupSet defaultBackupSet and  and select All select  All Tasks | Restore by Jobs Jobs.. The Restore by Jobs filter filter   dialog box appears. 3.  In the Restore by Jobs filter  filter  dialog box, select: a.  Backup Type:  All  All   b.  Job Status:

Completed   Completed

c.  Time Range:

Leave the Defaults  Defaults 

4.  Click Click Advanced  Advanced and  and select Include Aged Data from the “ the “ Advanced  Advanced Filter Options Options”  ”  dialog  dialog box that appears. 5.  Click OK to exit.

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6.  In the Restore by Jobs filter  filter  dialog box click OK . A Backup Job History History of Client ea-2016-ma ea-2016-ma window  window appears with a list of completed jobs. 7.  In the list of jobs select one of the FULL backups for subclient Mission Critical (look at the Job Type column Type column to find a full backup). At the  bottom of the window, click on Restore Selected Jobs. Jobs. The “ The “Restore Restore Options for All  Selected Items”  Items”  dialog box appears. 8.  In the “ the “Restore Restore Options for All Selected Items”  Items ”  dialog  dialog box: a.  Clear (deselect)

Restore to same folder

b.   “  “Specify Specify destination path”  path”  enter  enter C:\Restored_Jobs C:\Restored_Jobs   9.  Click OK to start the restore job. 10.  To watch the job progress, click on the Job Controller tab. 11.  At this point you can look at Windows Explorer Explorer on your ea-2016-ma virtual machine to watch the restore create the folder and recover the files from the Restore by Job activity.

NOTE: The job will also restore some extra folders for troubleshooting purposes.

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Enable the Pie Chart View

1.  From the CommCell® Browser, expand Client Computers |  | ea-2016-cs ea-2016-cs |  | File System to see the defaultBackupSet.. defaultBackupSet 2.  Right-click the defaultBackupSet defaultBackupSet and  and select All select  All Tasks |  | New Subclient. Subclient. 3.  Enter the following information for the new subclient: a.  General tab: i.  Subclient Name: Data b.  Content tab: i.  Click Browse Browse,, expand file tree and select C:\Documents and Settings folder. ii.  Click Click Add  Add then  then click Close Close.. c.  Storage Device tab: i.  Storage Policy: Select Dedupe Disk. ii.  Click the Advanced the Advanced button d.   Advanced Options Options tab: i.  Select Scan using: Recursive Scan. Scan. ii.  Click OK  close  close the dialog box. 4.  Click OK  to  to create the subclient. 5.  Select Cancel Cancel when  when the Backup Schedule window pops up. 6.  Right-click the new Data subclient  subclient  and select Backup Backup..

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7.  Change the backup type to Full Full and  and click OK  to  to run immediately. 8.  To watch the job progress, click on the Job Controller tab. 9.  Right-click the job and select Detail… Examine the information shown under the various tabs.

Use Pie Chart View to Browse Data

1.  When the job has completed, expand Client Computers | Computers | ea-2016-cs ea-2016-cs |  | File System.  System.  2.  Right click the defaultBackupSet defaultBackupSet and  and select All select All Tasks | Browse and Restore. Restore. 3.  From the “ the “Browse Browse and Restore Options “ Options “window, window, click View click View Content. Content. 4.  When the browse window appears, click the Browse Pie Chart button Chart button at the top right-hand corner of the browse window. 5.   Also in the top right-hand corner, click the square square Float button to maximize the pie chart so that it’s all visible.  visible.   6.  Click the different areas on the chart to show the data that has been protected. 7.  When finished, click the double square Unfloat button on the top right-hand corner to minimize the window again.

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Module 6: Monitoring Activities Lab 1: Alerts The Alert wizard is used to configure the alert type, entities that will be monitored, notification criteria and notification method. The wizard can be accessed from the following:      

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The Alert icon in the Home tab of the Toolbar The Monitoring section of the Control Panel The Advanced button when configuring data protection or recovery operations

Set Alert Notification Method Notification types are used to determine the delivery method for the alert. Email is the most common method. Additional alert methods are: SNMP, Event Viewer, Run Command, Save to Disk, RSS Feed, Console Alert, SCOM and Workflow. Console alerts are covered in the next section.

Create a Required Update Alert 1.  On the CommCell® Console’s Ribbon Toolbar click the Home Home ribbon  ribbon tab | Alert |  Alert icon.  icon. The Alerts dialog box appears. 2.  In the Alerts dialog box click Add click Add and  and configure a new alert using the following information: a.  General Information: i.  Display Name: Required Updates  Updates  ii.  Category:

Software Updates  Updates 

iii.  Type:

Upgrades and Service Packs  Packs 

iv.  Click Next Next   b.  Entities Selection: i.  Select all Clients Clients   ii.  Click Next Next   c.  Threshold and Notification Criteria Selection: i.  Use the Default selections. ii.  Click Next Next   d.  Notification Type(s) Selection: i.  On Email tab select “ select  “Select Select  [Email] for notification”   ii.  Click Next Next   e.  Token Criteria Selection: i.   Accept the default selections selections ii.  Click Next Next   f.  User(s) and User Group(s) Selection: i.  From Available recipients list add master master to  to the Selected list ii.  Click Next Next  

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g.  Security: i.   Accept the default selections selections ii.  Click Next Next   h.  Summary: i.  Confirm and click Finish Finish to  to add the alert 3.  The new Required Updates alert appears in the Alerts dialog box list. 4.  Click OK  to  to exit.

Best Practice for your environment: Identify when required updates need to be applied to your   CommCell® environment. This alert occurs when a client and/or MediaAgent MediaAgent software version is lower ® than the Commserve server version.

Create a Failed Phase Alert using Console Alerts 1.  On the CommCell® Console’s Ribbon Toolbar click on the Home Home ribbon  ribbon tab | Alert | Alert icon.  icon. The Alerts dialog box appears. 2.  In the Alerts dialog box click on Add on Add and  and configure the new alert using the following information: a.  General Information: i.  Display Name:  Name:  Phase Failure ii.  Category: Category:   iii.  Type:

Job Management Data Protection

iv.  Click Next Next   b.  Entities Selection: i.  Select all Clients ii.  Click Next Next   c.  Threshold and Notification Criteria Selection: i.  Select Select Alert  Alert every 2 attempts attempts  (Phase Failure)  Failure)  ii.  Deselect all other Alert Criteria iii.  Click Next Next   d.  Notification Type(s) Selection: i.  On the Console Alerts tab Alerts tab select the box for “ for  “Select Select [Console Alerts] for notification”   ii.  Click Next Next   e.  Tokens-Based Criteria i.  In the Token Criteria Selection screen select the following rules:  rules:   1.  STORAGE POLICIES USED  USED  2.  Equals Equals  

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3.  Simple Disk (ea-2016-ma)  (ea-2016-ma)  ii.  Click Next f.  User(s) and User Group(s) Selection: i.  Use the Default selection ii.  Click Next Next   g.  Security Selection:  Selection:  i.  In the security selection screen, click the Add the Add button  button ii.  From the Domain dropdown list, select the Company Company domain  domain iii.  Select Company\student Company\student from  from the Name list and click the Add the  Add button  button iv.  From the Please select Role section, Role section, select the role Alert role  Alert Owner, Owner, and click OK  to  to add security. v.  Click Next h.  Summary: i.  Confirm and click Finish Finish to  to add the alert 3.  The new Phase Failure alert appears in the Alerts dialog box list 4.  Click OK  to  to exit

Note: Setting Token Based Criteria will restrict the alert to being generated only if a phase failure occurs on a client that uses the Simple Disk (ea-2016-ma) storage policy. Setting Company\Student as the Alert owner allows that user to modify the alert.

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Lab 2: Reports CommCell® reports are configured from the Reports Reports tab  tab in the CommCell® Toolbar. The most common report types are listed in the toolbar including: Job Summary, Summary, Job Schedule and Schedule and CommCell Readiness reports. Readiness reports. When the report type is selected, it displays as the th e default report in the report window. Note that any other report type can be accessed from the window. Reports can be scheduled, saved to a specific location or saved as templates. Templates are accessible in the CommCell® Browser by expanding Reports and selecting My Reports.

Creating a Report Create a Job Summary Report for Failed Jobs 1.  On the CommCell® Console’s Console’s Ribbon  Ribbon Toolbar click the Reports Reports ribbon  ribbon tab | Job Summary icon. Summary icon. The Report Selection dialog box appears. 2.  Configure a Job Summary Report using the following information: in formation: a.  General tab: i.  Select Data Management | Management | Backup Backup.. b.  Computers tab: i.  Keep the default of Client/Agents for [All Computer] and [All Agent Types]  Types]   c.  Selection tab: i.  Select Contents: | Failed Objects  Objects  ii.  Select Storage | MediaAgents  MediaAgents   d.  Options tab: i.  Note the default setting of Backup Types | All  All   ii.  Select Job Status | Status | Failed Failed (Clear  (Clear the All the  All option  option and select Failed Failed)) e.  Time Range tab: i.  Select Last 3 Days  Days  f.  Output tab: i.  Note the default Output Format: HTML HTML   3.   At the bottom of the Report Selection Selection  dialog box, click on Run Run.. After a few moments, the Backup Job  Summary Report appears. 4.   View the report then close the browser browser to complete this this activity.  5.  Close the Report Selection page. Selection page. 

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Changing the Recipient of an Existing Report 1.  On the CommCell® Console’s Console’s Ribbon  Ribbon Toolbar, select the Home ribbon ribbon  tab tab  | Scheduler icon. The Scheduled Jobs  window appears. Jobs 2.  Change the calendar view from Monthly to Details from the top left corner of the calendar. 3.  From the Details view of the Scheduled Jobs calendar window, search for the 8:00 8:00  am Job Summary report, right click and select Edit report, Edit.. 4.  In the “ the “Schedule Schedule Details”  Details”  dialog  dialog box, select the Notification tab. a.  In the Available Users section, add Help Desk Group (created in a prior activity) to the “ the “Users Users to be Notified”  Notified ”  section.  section. b.  Click OK  to  to save and close the window. 5.  Click X on the top-right of the Scheduled Jobs window to close it.

Schedule a Data Retention Forecast and Compliance Report 1.  On the CommCell® Console’s Console’s Ribbon  Ribbon Toolbar, select the Reports ribbon ribbon  tab. tab.   2.  From the Other the Other Reports icon, use the drop down menu and select Forecast. The Report  Selection Selection  dialog box appears with the Data Retention Forecast and Compliance report Compliance report highlighted.

3.  Review the available options for this report and when w hen finished,  finished, click on the Schedule Schedule button.  button. The  “Schedule  “ Schedule Details”  Details”  dialog  dialog box appears.

4.  Configure the report using the following information: a.  Schedule Pattern tab:

i.  Schedule Name:

Weekly Forecast

ii.  Select

Weekly | Weekly  | Friday Friday |  | 8:00 AM  AM 

b.  Report Details tab:

i.  In General sub-tab sub-tab | View Selection, Selection , deselect “ deselect “Show Show prunable data”  leaving  leaving “Show unprunable data”  selected.  selected.

ii.  In Output sub-tab, sub-tab, select Output Format: HTML Format: HTML   c.  Notification tab:

i.  From Available Users add the Admin the  Admin user  user to the “ the “Users Users to be Notified”  Notified”  column  column 5.  Click OK  to   to schedule the report. Click OK  on  on the information – information – Report  Report Scheduled Successfully window. 6.  In the Report Selection dialog box click Close Close to  to exit the dialog box.

Best Practice for your environment: Learn how to read/analyze the Data Retention Forecast  and Compliance Report. Report. Most media problems problems are related related to insufficient insufficient storage and that is caused by retention preventing preventing data aging, pruning, and subsequent re-use of media. The Data Retention Forecast and Compliance Report can help you identify why space is not being freed.

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Save a CommCell® Configuration Report 1.  On the CommCell® Console’s Ribbon Toolbar, select the Reports Reports ribbon  ribbon tab and select Other Reports icon. Reports icon. 2.  Select Configuration Configuration from  from the pull-down menu. The Report Selection dialog box appears. 3.  Configure the report using the following information: a.  General tab: i.   Verify CommCell, Alerts, and User/User Groups are selected. b.  MediaAgent tab: i.  Select Select “  “Include Include All MediaAgents”   4.   At the bottom of the Report Selection Selection dialog box, click on Save As. As. The Save As dialog box appears. 5.  In the Save As dialog box enter “ enter “New New CommCell Report” Report” as the report name. 6.  Click OK  to  to save the report. 7.   A pop-up dialog box appears noting noting the report was saved successfully. Click Click OK . 8.  In the Report Selection dialog box click Close Close to  to exit the dialog box. 9.  In the CommCell® Browser, expand Reports Reports |  | My Reports. Reports. 10.  Select General General.. In the Summary window the saved “New saved  “New CommCell Report” configuration report will be listed. 11.  Right-click on the new report and select Run Immediately. Immediately. After a moment, the CommCell Configuration Report will appear. 12.  Review the report. 13.  Close the browser to complete this activity.

Best Practice for your environment: Alway environment: Alwayss have an up-to-date up-to-date CommCell Configur Configuration ation Report  available at your Disaster Recovery Recovery site. It will facilitate your recovery by identifying  configuration info including source and protected stor storage age relationships.

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 APPENDIX A: User Guide to Access CVLab CVLab environment CommVault® Education Services https://ea.commvault.com  Accessing and launching launching the CVLab environment environment

Go to: https://ea.commvault.com   https://ea.commvault.com

Log in using your Education Advantage credentials.

If you don’t know your password click the “Forgot your password” link.

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Locate the CVLab launcher icon:

  If the CVLab is being

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provided as part of a course, locate the course.

  If the CVLab has been purchased as a standalone component, locate the CommVault Virtual Lab OnDemand course.

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Click the link to launch the lab environment.

Click the machine.

icon to start the virtual

Once the virtual machines have been started (approximately 3 – 6 minutes) click on the launcher button

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Otherwise, click on the downloaded .rdp file to open the virtual machine.

If a remote desktop connection pop-up box prompts to connect to the remote computer, click Connect.

The remote desktop connection will start.

Remote connection log in credentials:

  Username: company\student   Password: student

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 Accessing and using the CommCell® CommCell® Console

To access the CommCell console click the launcher icon in the Windows Task bar.

Windows task bar 

Use the following credentials to log in to the CommCell console:

  Username: admin   Password: admin

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Note: password is all lowercase. Click OK. Activities   Return to Lab Activities

Resource Documents Depending on the course chosen, various resource documents will be available:

  Activity Guide   Course Guide

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