Remove assets from an existing storage group protection policy
Use the
PowerProtect Data Manager UI to edit a protection policy to remove storage groups.
Steps
Select
Protection > Protection Policy.
The
Protection Policy window appears.
Select the protection policy that you want to modify, and click
Edit.
The
Edit Policy
window opens on the
Summary
page.
In the
Assets row, click
Edit.
The
Assets page appears.
To remove a storage group from the protection policy, select the asset and click
Remove.
NOTE During backup, storage groups that you added to a protection policy are grouped in a transaction. When deleting storage groups, it is recommended to delete all the storage groups that are part of this transaction simultaneously.
The
Assets page updates with the changes.
Click
Next to save the changes and go to the
Summary page.
In the
Summary page, click
Finish
An informational dialog box appears.
Click
OK to exit the dialog box, or click
Go to Jobs to open the
Jobs window to monitor the backup of the new protection policy.
Results
Configuration of assets occurs in four steps:
Step1: Configure ProtectPoint vDisks.
Step 2: Encapsulate vDisks.
Step 3: Create copy.
Step 4: Configure host.
If the four configuration steps for the assets that are marked for removal completes successfully, a
Removing Storage Groups from Configuration File job is initiated. Upon completion, the entry for these assets is removed from the
BACKUP_SOURCE_DEVICES section of the configuration file, and the assets will no longer be backed up as part of the policy. Existing backups of these assets remain on the system and continue to be available for recovery. If you want to protect these assets again, you can create another
Storage Groups policy for the assets, add them again to the previous policy, or add them to an existing policy that has the same vDisk pool.
If configuration fails at step 2 or earlier, the configuration for the assets is removed. If the configuration fails at step 3 or later, however, the configuration is retained.
NOTE If asset configuration was only partially successful for a protection or replication stage, asset removal is handed differently based on the following scenarios:
If configuration of the protection stage was only partially successful, the configuration of these assets is removed based on the step at which configuration failed. For example, if configuration failed at the first step
Configure ProtectPoint vDisks, then the vDisks are deleted. If configuration failed at the second step
Encapsulate vDisks, storage_groups are deleted and the vDisks are deleted.
If configuration for both protection and replication stages was incomplete, configuration is removed for the protection and replication stage, based on the step at which the failure occurred.
If configuration for the protection stage was incomplete but was successful for the replication stage, the configuration is removed for protection, based on the step at which the failure occurred, and the replication configuration remains intact.
If configuration for the protection stage was completed successfully, but was incomplete for the replication stage, then the configuration for both protection and replication are retained. You can restart jobs for replication to complete the configuration.
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