Rule of policies
Hi,
i work on master NBU 7.7.
There is many many differents policies
i wanted to know if there is some rules to follow when i do some policies.
for exemple,
- do i have to do a specific policy for the master/media server ?
- is it better to have one policy with many client or many policies with less clients ?
thanks you
Policy are created per application or data type i.e File Systems (Standard for Unix or Linux and Windows-NT for Microsoft based file systems), Oracle, Exchange Server, SQL Server etc.
Whether you'll have one or many policies really depends on the environment and the level of standardization you'll want for backups.
Lets say you've got 50 Windows clients and you want to back up all the data on all of them. You can create 1 policy with all the clients in it.
Lets now assume that for some reason, one some of those client you only want to backup the D drive. In this case you'll need 2 policies, 1 for all the "D drive" clients and 1 for the rest.
As you can see, if you start with the 1 policy, as soon as there is a requirement that does not meet the first policy's rules, you'll need to create another policy. These different requirement could be anything from selecting a different option ("use accelerator" for instance vs don't "use accelerator"), having a different schedule configuration, or having a different backup selection.
