Best practices to create backup policies

[NBU35]

What are the Best practices to create a backup policies and what should be avaoid to utilise maximum resources and cost effective ness.

[revarooo]

Your question is to vague. You do not mention what you are backing up or any environment details such as storage units, amount of data to backup, amount of clients, amount of media servers.

Have you ever dealt with NetBackup before? If not, here is all of the documentation:

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=landing&key=15143

[Marianne · Accepted solution]

A good starting point is the Planning and Performance Guide  http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH62317

More good reading matter is the Policy section of the NBU Admin Guide:  NBU Admin Guide for UNIX and Linux, Volume I  http://www.symantec.com/docs/DOC3650

Configuration depends on available resources - number of media servers, physical resources on media servers (memory, cpu), number and type of available tape drives, etc... etc...

[NBU35]

Thanks Marianne, this doc helped me, ,moreover i worked on the retention part .

Thanks All for your valuebale suggestions.