restoring data for client deleted from netbackup
i'm new to our netbackup group, and more experienced with backup exec, and smaller amounts of data than my company currently backs up. we're trying to clean up some old policies because the jobs are failing. for instance, we have several vmware policies with different virtual machines. some of those virtual machines no longer exist, but their data needs to be retained for several more years. the person in my group that's worked the longest with netbackup says we can't remove those clients from the policy because then we won't be able to restore the vm if we need it later. is that true? if so, how do we prevent the policy from failing when it doesn't find the virtual machine?