PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance 5.16.0.0 Administrator's Guide for DM5500

Add a Cloud Tier objective to a protection policy

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

1. Log in to the PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance user interface as a user with the Administrator role.
2. From the PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance UI, select Protection > Protection Policies, and then click Add.
   The Add Policy wizard appears.
3. On the Type page, enter a name and description, select the type of system to back up, and click Next.

   The following protection policy types support Cloud Tiering:

   • Virtual machine
   • Microsoft SQL Server
   • Microsoft Exchange Server
   • Network Attached Storage (NAS)
   • Oracle
   • SAP HANA
   • File System
   • Kubernetes
   • Block volume
4. On the Purpose page, select from the available options to indicate the purpose of the new protection policy, and then click Next.
5. On the Assets page, select the assets that you want to protect with this policy, and then click Next.
6. On the Objectives page, click Add under Primary Backup if the primary backup objective is not already created, and fill out the fields in the Target and Schedules panes on the Add Primary Backup dialog.
   NOTE:There is no minimum recurrence required for the Cloud objective, however, the Cloud Tier objective requires a minimum retention period of 14 days in the Retain for field.
7. Click Cloud Tier next to Primary Backup or, if adding a Cloud objective for a replication objective that you have added, click Cloud Tier under Replicate.
   An entry for Cloud Tier is created to the right of the primary backup objective, or below the replication objective.
8. Under the entry for Cloud Tier, click Add.
   The Add Cloud Tier Backup dialog appears, with summary information for the parent node. This information indicates whether you are adding this Cloud Tier objective for the primary backup objective or the replication objective.
9. In the Add Cloud Tier Backup dialog box, set the following parameters and then click Save:
   • Select one or more of the upstream full backups.
   • Select the appropriate Cloud Unit from the Cloud Target list.
   • For Tier After, set a time of 14 days or more.
   The protection policy is now enabled with Cloud Tiering.

   NOTE:If the retention period of a copy is less than the time specified in the Tier After field, and you do not edit the Retain for value of this schedule or its copy to a value greater than the Tier After field before the retention period of the copy expires, the copy will not be cloud tiered.
10. Click Next to proceed with the remaining pages of the Add Policy wizard, verify the information, and then click Finish.
    A new job is created, which you can view under the Jobs tab after the job completes.