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  2. NetBackup™ for Oracle Administrator's Guide
  3. Oracle policy configuration
  4. About script-based Oracle policies
  5. About policy attributes
NetBackup™ for Oracle Administrator's Guide

About policy attributes

With a few exceptions, NetBackup manages the policy attributes set for a database backup like a file system backup. Other policy attributes vary according to your specific backup strategy and system configuration.

For more information on policy attributes, see the NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume I.

Table: Policy attribute for NetBackup for Oracle policies

Attribute

Description

Policy type

Determines the types of clients that can be backed up with the policy. For Oracle databases, select the policy type Oracle.

Limit jobs per policy

Sets the maximum number of instances that NetBackup can back up concurrently with this policy.

Follow NFS

This option is available for Oracle policies on UNIX. Select this attribute to back up the files from NFS-mounted file systems. If this option is not selected, NetBackup cannot perform a backup of NFS-mounted files.

Also see the NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume I.

Note:

This option is not available for snapshot backups.

Keyword phrase

For NetBackup for Oracle, the Keyword phrase entry is ignored.

Snapshot Client and Replication Director

This group contains the options that enable backups with Snapshot Client and Replication Director.

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