The defines the level or classification of data that the SLP is allowed to process. The drop-down menu contains all of the defined classifications as well as the Any classification, which is unique to SLPs. The Any selection indicates to the SLP that it should preserve all images that are submitted, regardless of their data classification. It is available for SLP configuration only and is not available to configure a backup policy. The is an optional setting. One data classification can be assigned to each SLP and applies to all operations in the SLP. If a data classification is selected (other than Any), the SLP stores only those images from the policies that are set up for that data classification. If no data classification is indicated, the SLP accepts images of any classification or no classification. The Data classification setting allows the NetBackup administrator to classify data based on relative importance. A classification represents a set of backup requirements. When data must meet different backup requirements, consider assigning different classifications.
For example, email backup data can be assigned to the silver data classification and financial data backup may be assigned to the platinum classification. A backup policy associates backup data with a data classification. Policy data can be stored only in an SLP with the same data classification.
Once data is backed up in an SLP, the data is managed according to the SLP configuration. The SLP defines what happens to the data from the initial backup until the last copy of the image has expired.
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