Veritas Alta™ SaaS Protection Administrator's Guide
- Section I. Introduction to Veritas Alta™ SaaS Protection
- Section II. Administration
- Section III. Manage backups (connectors)
- Overview
- About backup jobs (connectors)
- Overview for adding backup jobs (connectors)
- Configuring the capture scope
- Configuring credentials
- Configuring Delete and Stub policies
- Apps Consent Grant utility
- Backup Exchange Online mailboxes
- Adding connectors for Exchange Online data
- Configuring the capture scope for Exchange connectors
- Configuring the capture scope for Exchange connectors
- Backup SharePoint Online
- Supported SharePoint Online sites and data for backup and restore
- Adding backup jobs (connectors) for SharePoint Online sites and data
- Backup Teams Sites collections
- Backup OneDrive for Business
- Backup Teams chats
- Backup Audit logs
- Backup Google Drive data
- Backup Gmail data
- Backup Salesforce data
- Backup Entra ID (Azure AD) objects
- Backup Box data
- Backup Slack data
- Backup EML data
- Managing backup jobs (connectors)
- Backup jobs (connectors) statuses
- Browsing the backed-up data
- Events
- Overview
- Section IV. Manage restores
- About restore
- Prerequisites for data restore
- Restore dashboard
- Restore Exchange Online mailboxes
- Restore SharePoint Online data
- Restore Teams chats and Teams Channel conversations
- Restore Audit logs
- Restore Box data
- Restore Google Drive data
- Restore Gmail data
- Restore Salesforce data and Metadata
- Restore Salesforce Metadata to the same or another organization
- Restore Entra ID objects
- Restore Slack data
- Restore data to File server
- Restore options
- Section V. Manage data sharing
- Section VI. Manage data downloads
- Section VII. Manage Stors (Storages)
- Section VIII. Policies to manage the backed-up data
- About policies in Veritas Alta™ SaaS Protection
- Configuring policies for data retention (WORM policies)
- Configuring policies for data deletion (Deletion policy)
- Configuring policies for data tiering (Tiering policy)
- Configuring Tagging polices
- Managing policies
- Section IX. Manage users and roles
- Section X. Manage Discovery cases and searches
- Section XI. Manage Scopes
- Section XII. Manage auditing
Adding or updating Tier policies
To know more about the Tier policy, See About the Tiering policy .
Contact Veritas Support before configuring this policy.
To add or update Tier policies
- Open a web browser and access the Administration portal URL.
The home page of the Administration portal is displayed.
- Click Tiering.
- On the left, click Cool storage tier policies or Archive storage tier policies as required.
Cool tier
Cool tier is an online tier optimized for storing the data that is infrequently accessed. Data in the Cool tier should be stored for a minimum of 30 days. The Cool tier has lower storage costs and higher access costs as compared to the Hot tier.
Archive tier
Archive tier is an offline tier optimized for storing the data that is not accessed frequently and that has flexible latency requirements on the order of hours. Data in the Archive tier should be stored for a minimum of 180 days.
- Do one of the following:
To add a new policy, click New policy.
To update existing policy, click the name of the policy.
- On the Create policy page, do the following:
Enter a descriptive name for the policy. This name is displayed in policy drop-down lists on several pages.
From the Stor name drop-down list, select the Stor where you want to create the tier policy.
Select one of the following schedules to run the policy:
One time: Runs once as per the policy interval settings, and then its schedule gets changed to Never.
Continuous: Runs as per the policy interval settings.
Date range: Lets you specify a From and To date range to run the policy.
Never: Set this option if you are not ready to run the policy or want to stop the policy from running. The One time scheduled policies gets converted to Never after its runs.
Select one of the following modes as required:
Preview: Lists the items for tiering.
To ensure that you understand fully the scope of data that will be tiered, run the policy in Preview mode initially.
Production: Retains the items as per policy.
By default, the policy is disabled; it is saved but will not run. Toggle the Status option to enable the policy.
As soon as the policy is enabled, it runs as per the schedule set in the Schedule section.
To filter data, do the following:
Click Add a filter.
From the drop-down list, select the required criteria such as Last accessed date, Data owner, and so on.
Select the operator from the drop-down list.
Enter values based on which you want to apply policy.
You can add multiple filters as required. The <Remove filter> icon next to the added filter helps remove the filter from this policy.
Click Create to add a policy.
While you editing the policy, the Update option is displayed. Click it to save the changes.
For cool tier policies, it can be useful to add a clause for Archived At. It is the date the file was uploaded to Veritas Alta™ SaaS Protection. The default or older than one month is typically sufficient as it ensures that the data has time for any post-processing, such as full-text indexing; while on the Hot tier where the data has the lowest access costs.
Archive tier policies automatically exclude data based on the Stors storage tiering settings for the last accessed and items captured in the last N days. The policy runs according to the Policy Evaluation Interval for the selected Stor.
Warning:
Removing a Cool or Archive tier policy causes the data to be moved back to the Hot tier unless there is an overlapping Cool or Archive tier policy. Unwanted access and transaction costs incur and also could charge deletion costs if the data hasn't been on the tier long enough.