Policies

[girish_nair1984]

Dear Friends

I would like to know functionalities of following terms while creating policies

• Multiple Copies
• Override policy storage selection
• Override policy volume pool
• Override media owner
• Media Multiplexing
• Retention.

Thank You

[mph999]

Goto the screen in the GUI that shows the option you want to know about - click the help button.

This gives a very good explanation

Martin

[Andy_Welburn]

The best way to find out about these without too much problem would be either

1. The Admin Guide
2. The [Help] button when you're in the schedule then "Schedule attributes field descriptions" which gives you further links for all those & the other attributes.

***EDIT***

Too slow, Martin's obviously had a little more coffee than me this morning!

[Marianne]

Have you tried to read up on all these points in NBU Admin Guide I?

There is really too much information on all of these topics to cover in a single forum post.

Chapter 16 - Creating Backup Policies

Under Schedules tab you will find topics such as :

Override policy storage (schedule attribute)

Override policy volume pool (schedule attribute)

Override media owner (schedule attribute)

etc... It's all there....

[Hemant_Gambhir0 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Just to give you a brief info, please refer the following technotes for each option.

Multiple Copies: Refer, http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH61098

Override policy storage selection: Most Backup Policies contain multiple schedules which create different types of backup with different retention requirements (for example daily incremental backups that are retained for 2 weeks and weekly full backups that are retained for one month).

The primary Storage Lifecycle Policy specified in the Backup Policy Attributes sets on only the storage destinations but also the retention periods to be used for all the backups created by that Backup Policy. However, as with conventional Storage Units and Storage Unit Groups, it is possible to override the Storage Lifecycle Policy used by the Backup Policy at the schedule level.

Thus the same Backup Policy may use different Storage Lifecycle Policies for full and incremental backups.

Override policy volume pool:
The Override policy volume pool attribute specifies whether to use the policy volume pool or another volume pool for this schedule.
■ To override the volume pool that the Policy Volume Pool General Attribute specifies, select the check box. Choose the volume pool from the list of previously configured volume pools.

■ To use the policy volume pool, do not select the check box. NetBackup uses the volume pool that is specified in the Policy volume pool General Attribute. If no policy volume pool is specified, NetBackup uses NetBackup as the default. If the policy is for a NetBackup catalog, NBU-Catalog policies use CatalogBackup.

Override media owner: Refer, http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=HOWTO34703

Media Multiplexing: Refer, http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=DOC2799

Retention: Refer, http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=HOWTO13877