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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  3. Section V. Configuring backups
  4. Creating backup policies
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Creating backup policies

This section includes the following topics:
  • About the Policies utility

  • Planning for policies

  • Creating a backup policy

  • Adding or changing schedules in a policy

  • Changing multiple policies at one time

  • Warning about modifying or deleting automanaged policies or storage lifecycle policies

  • Copying or moving policy items to another policy

  • Copying a policy to create a new policy

  • Copying a schedule into the same policy or different policy

  • Deleting schedules, backup selections, or clients from a policy

  • Policy Attributes tab

  • Schedules tab

  • Schedule Attributes tab

  • Start Window tab

  • Excluding days from a schedule

  • Include Dates tab

  • How NetBackup determines which schedule to run next

  • About schedule windows that span midnight

  • How open schedules affect calendar-based and frequency-based schedules

  • About the Clients tab

  • Backup Selections tab

  • VMware Policy tab

  • Hyper-V Policies tab

  • Exclude Disks tab

  • Disaster Recovery tab

  • Creating a Vault policy

  • Creating a BigData policy

  • Performing manual backups

  • Active Directory granular backups and recovery

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