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  2. NetBackup™ for Greenplum Administrator's Guide
  3. Configuring NetBackup for Greenplum
  4. About configuring a backup policy for Greenplum
  5. About policy attributes
NetBackup™ for Greenplum Administrator's Guide

About policy attributes

With a few exceptions, policy attributes for a Datastore policy are managed in the same way as for most other policy types. Certain 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 attributes for NetBackup for Greenplum policies

Attribute

Description

Policy type

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

Allow multiple data streams

This policy attribute is ignored for NetBackup for Greenplum. If you want to adjust the number of streams (or the jobs that are created), the number of streams should be equal to the number of segments.

Refer to the number_of_streams option.

See The nbgpbackup_config.yaml file.

Keyword phrase

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

You can set a keyword value in the nbgpbackup_config.yaml file.

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