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  3. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  5. Section V. Configuring backups
  7. Creating backup policies
  9. Schedule Attributes tab
  11. Instant Recovery (schedule attribute)
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Instant Recovery (schedule attribute)

The Instant Recovery attributes are available under the following conditions:

  • The Snapshot Client option is licensed and installed.

    Refer to the NetBackup Snapshot Client Administrator's Guide.

  • Perform snapshot backups is selected.

  • Retain snapshots for Instant Recovery is selected.

See Snapshot Client and Replication Director (policy attributes).

This attribute has two options.

Snapshots and copy snapshots to a storage unit

The snapshot persists on the client volume with a backup copy made to the storage unit on the media server.

Snapshots only

The snapshot is not backed up to tape or to other storage. NetBackup creates a snapshot on disk only. This option is required for the NAS_Snapshot method.

The snapshot is created on the same device as the one that contains the original data if it uses VxFS_Checkpoint method or is VxVM space optimized. In this case, another policy can be used to back up the data to a separate device.

Transaction logs are not truncated at the end of the backup.

The Instant Recovery attributes are grayed out if the Policy storage option on the Policy Attributes tab refers to a storage lifecycle policy. If that is the case, the storage lifecycle policy configuration governs the Instant Recovery attributes.

However, the Override policy storage selection attribute on the Schedule Attributes tab overrides the Policy storage option. If a storage unit is selected on the Schedule Attributes tab, the Instant Recovery attributes become enabled.

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Policy storage (policy attribute)

Override policy storage (schedule attribute)

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