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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  3. Section IX. Administering NetBackup
  4. Management topics
  5. NetBackup naming conventions
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

NetBackup naming conventions

NetBackup has rules for naming logical constructs, such as clients, disk pools, backup policies, storage lifecycle policies, and so on. Generally, names are case-sensitive. The following set of characters can be used in user-defined names and passwords:

  • Alphabetic (A-Z a-z) (names are case-sensitive)

  • Numeric (0-9)

  • Period (.)

  • Plus (+)

  • Minus (-)

    Do not use a minus as the first character.

  • Underscore (_)

These characters are also used for foreign languages.

Note:

No spaces are allowed.

The Logical Storage Unit (LSU) name or the Domain Volume name must have fewer than 50 ASCII characters including a hyphen (-) and an underscore (_) and must not have a blank space.

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