PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance 5.16.0.0 Administrator's Guide for DM5500

There are several reasons why you might want to disable a protection policy. For example, by disabling a policy, you can:

• Edit the policy and determine the impact of your changes before these changes take effect.
• Stop backup activity on primary storage if the storage is in maintenance or is temporarily unavailable (for example, during a storage upgrade).

By default, disabling a centralized protection policy stops the primary backup objectives of this policy, including synthetic full backups, full backups, and so on. Any replication and cloud tier objectives, however, continue to run while the policy is disabled. You can also perform manual primary backups of a policy that is in Disabled state by using the Protect Now functionality in the PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance UI.

When a protection policy is disabled, you can edit the policy in the same manner that you would edit an enabled policy. The advantage of editing a policy in Disabled state is that you can preview the changes before resuming primary backups of the policy. Creating or editing a protection policy provides more information about modifying the details of an existing policy.

• In progress primary backup jobs that are associated with this policy continue to run until complete. If primary backups are scheduled to run during the time that the policy is disabled, those backups do not run, even when you enable the policy again. When you re-enable the policy, future scheduled backups resume.
• All other protection jobs for the policy continue to run according to schedule, unless no primary backup copy exists for the policy. In this case, protection jobs are skipped.
• Manual backups of primary objectives can still be performed.