Copying or moving policy items to another policy
You can copy or move entire policies, attributes, schedules, clients, and backup selections from one policy to another. The following is a description of which policy items can be copied or moved.
Use the following procedure to copy or move items from one policy to another.
To copy or move items from one policy to another
- In the NetBackup Administration Console, in the left pane, expand NetBackup Management > Policies.
- In the middle pane, select either Attributes, Schedules, Clients, or Backup Selections of a policy that you want to copy or move.
- In the right pane, based on your selection in the previous step, select the attributes, schedules, clients, or backup selections of a policy that you want to copy or move.
- Do one of the following:
To copy an item
On the Edit menu, click Copy or, press Alt+C.
To move an item
On the Edit menu, click Cut.
Click Yes when asked if you want to delete the selected item from the policy.
- In the middle-pane, select the policy item to which you want to paste the copied items.
- From the Edit menu, click Paste.
When you paste items with the same name, you are provided an option to either copy and replace the existing item, or copy but keep the existing item, or do not copy.
Note:
If the schedules do not match the policy type, the schedules are not copied. The action is indicated in a dialog box.
When you paste Attributes, the existing Attributes of the policy are always replaced. Whereas, when you paste Backup Selections, the Backup Selection is always copied to the policy, and not replaced.
The copying or moving feature is also applicable to instances and instance groups of Oracle and SQL type of backup policies.