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PowerProtect Data Manager 19.16 Storage Array User Guide

Configure a cloud tiering objective

For some protection policy types, you can add a Cloud Tier objective to a protection policy to move local full backups to the Cloud Tier after a predefined number of days.

Prerequisites

To move a backup or replica to Cloud Tier, the corresponding objectives must have a retention time of 14 days or more.

Cloud Tiering happens at 00:00 UTC each day. Depending on your time zone, this time may be within business hours and thus Cloud Tiering may impact available network bandwidth. Cloud Tiering applies to both centralized and self-service protection policies.

About this task

The PowerProtect Data Manager Administrator Guide provides more information about adding a Cloud objective and managing or working with Cloud Tier backups and replicas.

Steps

  1. Click Cloud Tier next to or under one of the following:
    • A primary backup objective.
    • A primary retention objective.
    • A replication objective.
    The wizard creates an entry for Cloud Tier to the right of, or below, the associated objective.
  2. Under the entry for Cloud Tier, click Add.
    The Add Cloud Tier Backup dialog appears, with summary information for the parent objective to indicate whether you are adding this Cloud Tier objective for the primary objective or the replication objective.
  3. To tier the backups from all the full primary backup or replication schedules of this policy, keep the All applicable full backups slider to the right.
    Otherwise, move the slider to the left and select one or more full schedules to tier.
  4. Set the following parameters:
    • Select the appropriate Cloud Unit from the Cloud Target list.
    • For Tier After, set a time of 14 days or more.
    NOTE: If either of the following conditions are true, you can still select this schedule for tiering:
    • The retention period of a schedule is less than the minimum 14 days required before tiering occurs.
    • The retention period of a schedule is less than the value in the Tier After field.

    However, you must edit the retention period of this schedule, or its backup or replica, to a value greater than the Tier After field before the retention period of the copy expires. Otherwise, PowerProtect Data Manager will not move the backup or replica of this schedule to the cloud tier.

  5. Click Save to save your changes and return to the Objectives page.

Next steps

Configure any remaining objectives. When you have configured all required objectives, click Next.

The wizard moves to the Summary page. Continue to Review the protection policy summary.


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