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Status Under review
Workspace Storage Protect Family
Categories Spectrum Protect (Server)
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 20, 2024

RELATED IDEAS

Tiering rules need more flexibility for Filesystem and/or type of data (Backup/Archive)

I would like to see the tiering rules to be able to be a bit more flexible.

I have a node that has Backup and Archive data.
Backup data is more often needed quickly so a backup location in ContainerPools is valid.
The Archive data is kept 10 years and not really needed on expensive disks.

I know an early setup with a separate Policy or a separate node for the archive data would have allowed for using ContainerPool and hierarchical structure for the appropriate backup types.

With Tiering to allow for either backup type or Filesystem to be tiered would allow us to get cold data out of the ContainerPool to tape media, where it belongs.
I do not want to tier all data from that node, just the Archive data, which resides in one filesystem.

Example:

Type    Filespace    FSID
Bkup    /            5
Arch    /backup      1
Bkup    /data        3
Bkup    /home        4
Bkup    /opt         8
Bkup    /usr/local   11
Bkup    /var         13

I only would like to tier /backup (FSID 1) to tape.

The syntax of subrules already has some element for filesystems in it but it seems it is only valid for VM-Backups(?).
The selection of Backup or Archive data would be new to the subrule set.
Currently the only selections available is for 'ALL DATA', 'INACTIVE' or 'NO DATA'

Idea priority Medium

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