Lineage Maintenance

The CopyStorm/Medic Lineage Maintenance Tool is used to view lineage data & invalidate problematic lineage records.

Over time, a Record’s lineage may be invalidated:

• One of the legacy lineage entries may no longer exist in the CopyStorm Database or Snapshot.

• Records may have multiple children, causing split lineage.

For more details on Record Lineage, refer to this article.

Using the Tool

• Select “Other Tools” from the top-level menu.

• Select “Data Synchronization” and then “Lineage Maintenance”

• Optionally Configure Modified After & Modified Before

  • This will control what date ranges are queried for lineage.

  • Leaving these values Blank will query all time lineage.

• Optionally Enable Validators

  • Purged Record Validation

    • Identifies lineage entries that do not have a corresponding physical record in the CopyStorm Database or Snapshot.

  • Branching Lineage Validation

    • Identifies lineage entries that have multiple children.

• Optionally toggle “Only Show Invalid Lineages” checkbox

  • This should be used when investigating invalid lineages.

• Click “Start Scan”

After clicking “Start Scan”, the application will render a view of:

• All Lineage within the provided Modified After / Modified Before values.

• The Status of each Lineage.

  • Valid

    • If there are no branches and all lineage entries exist in the CopyStorm Database or Snapshot

  • Invalid

    • If branch(es) are detected or any entry is missing from the CopyStorm Database or Snapshot

• The associated Salesforce Table for the Lineage.

• The Salesforce ID of the Lineage HEAD

  • HEAD is the most recent entry in the Lineage.

Use the “Invalidate Selected Lineage” to mark problematic Lineage Entries as Invalid in the database.

Note: Invalidating Lineage will prevent CopyStorm/Restore from considering invalid entries as recovery candidates.

An example of viewing a full lineage is shown below: