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Documentation PDF: Protect. Access. Comply. Share
Documentation PDF: Protect. Access. Comply. Share
Documentation PDF: Protect. Access. Comply. Share
Key Benefits
Combined Storage tier is recommended as it has the following key benefits:
Restores using Browse and Restore occur faster, with no index recall delay.
Index data can be managed (created, removed) without early deletion charges. (Note that Index data does not follow storage policy retention, so
it can be aged sooner.)
Recalls are faster on Combined Storage Tier, as the metadata (index and deduplication metadata) resides in the warmer tier. As a result, only one
pass for data recall is initiated from the Archive tier.
Backups
Commvaults combined storage tiers works by placing Commvault metadata used in both deduplication and non-deduplicated backups in the warmer
or frequent access tiers. This allows you to perform a simple Browse and Restore of the archival data, without the delay of a cloud archive storage
recall.
As a result, more than 90% of the backup data gets stored in the Archive tier, while only up to 10% of the data is stored in the warmer tiers.
Deduplicated and non-deduplicated data is supported in Commvault combined storage tiers.
For deduplicated data, the backup indexes and deduplication metadata is stored in the warmer tier.
For non-deduplicated data, the backup index is stored in the warmer tier.
Backup Sizing
While Cloud Storage services typically grow forever, for planning purposes, the following ratios can be used when sizing your cloud storage for archival
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use-cases:
3% of backup data stored will reside in warm tier
97% of backup data store will reside in cold tier
These figures refer to data after deduplication and compression (if used).
Restores
Restores from combined storage tiers require no additional steps. Simply Browse your data, select the data to restore, and then click Restore.
For more information, see Restoring Data from Archive Cloud Storage .
Deduplication
Both deduplicated and non deduplicated backups supported.
Deduplication sealing is done automatically to ensure that the data is pruned. By default, DDB will be sealed every 365 days.
Note: For longer retention periods, this value can be manually setup to be half of the retention days. For example, if the retention is set to 4 years, this
value can be set to 2 years or 730 days.
You can set Deduplication sealing using the Create new DDB every n days option available in the Deduplication tab in Storage Policy Copy
Properties dialog box.
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