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  2. NetBackup™ Self Service Configuration Guide
  3. Appendix A. NetBackup policy types
  4. List of NetBackup policy types
NetBackup™ Self Service Configuration Guide

List of NetBackup policy types

Table: Policy types and associated IDs is a list of the Policy Types available in NetBackup and their associated IDs. You must use these when you create the Policy Types Integration Setting.

Table: Policy types and associated IDs

ID

Name

NetBackup Self Service

Backup selection

0

Standard

Protection; file restore

Defined in policy template and applies to all clients in the policy.

4

Oracle

Protection (client based only); database restore

Defined by a script that resides on the client.

6

Informix-On-BAR

Not supported

 

7

Sybase

Protection

Defined by a script that resides on the client.

8

MS-SharePoint

Protection

Defined in policy template and applies to all clients in the policy.

10

NetWare

Not supported

 

11

DataTools-SQL-BackTrack

Not supported

 

12

Auspex-FastBackup

Not supported

 

13

MS-Windows

Protection; file restore

Defined in policy template, applies to all clients.

14

OS/2

Not supported

 

15

MS-SQL-Server

Protection (client based only); database restore

 

16

MS-Exchange-Server

Protection

Defined in policy template and applies to all clients in the policy.

17

SAP

Protection

Defined by a script that resides on the client.

18

DB2

Protection

Defined by a script that resides on the client.

19

NDMP

Protection

Defined in policy template and applies to all clients in the policy.

20

FlashBackup

Protection

Defined in policy template and applies to all clients in the policy.

21

Split-Mirror

Not supported

 

22

AFS

Not supported

 

24

DataStore

Not supported

 

25

Lotus-Notes

Not supported

 

27

OpenVMS

Not supported

 

29

FlashBackup-Windows

Not supported

 

31

BE-MS-SQL-Server

Not supported

 

32

BE-MS-Exchange-Server

Not supported

 

34

Disk Staging

Not supported

 

35

NBU-Catalog

Not supported

 

37

CMS_DB

Not supported

 

38

PureDisk Export

Not supported

 

39

Enterprise Vault

Not supported

 

40

VMware

Protection (intelligent policies or client based); restore VM; restore file

 

41

Hyper-V

Protection (intelligent policies or client based); restore VM; restore file

 

42

NBU-Search

Not supported

 

47

Nutanix AHV

Protection; Restore Nutanix VM

Restore Nutanix VM.

50

Kubernetes

Protection; Restore Namespace; and Persistent volume

Restore Namespace and Persistent volume.

At this time, computers cannot be protected with snapshot-enabled policies. This issue is a known issue.

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