HP 3PAR Recovery Manager Software for Microsoft SQL Server Licenses - Manual (Page 41)

If you have Remote Copy set up, you can also create a virtual copy to be saved on the Remote
Copy backup server; this type of copy is called a remote virtual copy.
NOTE: For more information about setting up instances, databases, and volumes to avoid data
loss, see “Configuring the SQL Database” (page 20) .
NOTE: Recovery Manager creates copy-only backup for availability databases on secondary
replica.
Manually Creating a Virtual Copy
To create a virtual copy:
1.
In the node tree pane, right-click the instance or database for which you want to create a
virtual copy, and select Create Virtual Copy.
2. For Availability Group databases, select the Database Source from the drop down menu. This
menu lists the primary and secondary database sources as shown in
Figure 7 (page 41)
Figure 7 Database Sources
3. Optional: To adjust policy values for this virtual copy (or, if you are scheduling automatic
copies, this group of virtual copies):
•
To adjust the expiration time, select Expiration Time and enter the new expiration time.
•
To adjust the retention time, select Retention Time and enter the new retention time.
Valid values are 0 {h|H|d|D} (for no retention time) to 43,800 hours/1,825 days.
For Availability Group databases, the policy settings for the selected server or instance are
displayed. If the policy settings does not exist for the selected server or instance, the default
settings are displayed.
For more information, see “Setting the Recovery Manager Policy” (page 37) .
NOTE: User needs to set value 0 {h|H|d|D}, if they do not want to set the expiration value
and retention value for the virtual copy to be created. It this is not set, the global expiration
policy value and retention policy value will be used for the virtual copy when expiration-based
policy is configured.
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