Considerations for selecting a destination for Policy storage — NetBackup 8.3.0.1 | Cohesity Documentation

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Considerations for selecting a destination for Policy storage — NetBackup 8.3.0.1 | Cohesity Documentation

Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Considerations for selecting a destination for Policy storage

Consider the following scenarios before selecting a destination from the Policy storage list on the policy Attributes tab.

Table:

Scenario	Action
The site contains one storage unit, or there is no storage unit preference.	Do one of the following: Specify Any Available for the Policy storage attribute. Do not specify a storage unit at the schedule level. See Override policy storage (schedule attribute). Do not set all storage units to On demand only. NetBackup may not find an available storage unit for the backups. See Changing storage unit settings. See On demand only storage unit setting.
A specific storage unit is designated but the unit is unavailable.	Consider changing the destination to Any Available since backups cannot run for those policies and the schedules that require the unit.
Any Available is selected.	Be aware that any basic disk storage unit that is not assigned to a storage group is considered available for disk spanning. See Media properties.
You want to limit the storage units available to a policy.	Do one of the following: Select a storage unit group that contains only the units you want the policy to use. Limit the storage units by doing the following: Create a volume pool that contains the volumes that are available only to the specific storage units. Disable Scratch pool for the volume pool. If Scratch pool is enabled, any storage unit has access to the volumes in the volume pool. See Adding or deleting a volume pool. See About scratch volume pools. In the policy, set Policy volume pool to the volume pool that is defined in the previous step. For all policies, set Policy storage attribute to Any Available. If the policy specifies a storage unit group, set the storage units within the group to On demand only to satisfy the policy requirement. See Changing storage unit settings.

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On demand only storage unit setting

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