Archive Policies Summary Page

This page enables you to view and administer the archive policies on the current server. For more information about archive policies, see About Archive Policies.

You can perform the following tasks:

The following information is shown on the Archive Policies Summary page.

Table 50 Information Shown on Archive Policies Summary Page

Column

Description

Policy Name

The name of the policy in the archiver.cmd file.

Policy Type

The type of policy:

  • File system default - A policy that is automatically created when you create an archiving file system. It archives the metadata for the archiving file system and archives all files that do not meet any file match criteria defined in any custom or no-archive policies that are applied to the archiving file system. Each file system default policy has the same name as its archiving file system.

  • Custom - A policy that you can create for the purpose of archiving a group of files according to a different set of rules and, optionally, to different archive media than those specified in the file system default policy. You define the name of the policy and one or more sets of file match criteria that determine which files can be archived.

  • No-archive - A policy that you can create for the purpose of preventing files from being archived. There can be only one no-archive policy on a server at a time, and the policy always has the name of no_archive. This policy does not have any copies, but you can add file match criteria to the policy to prevent more groups of files from being archived. The file match criteria in this policy can be applied to numerous archiving file systems.

  • Configurable defaults - A policy that always exists and has the name of allsets unless you name it otherwise. This policy enables you to set default values for advanced copy options and volume assignments. These default values are applied to all custom and file system default policies on the current server.

Number of Copies

The number of archive copies to be written per file that is archived: 1, 2, 3, or 4.

File Systems

The names of the file systems, separated by commas, to which the policy is applied. The file system default policy type is always applied only to the file system after which it is named.