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  1. Home
  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  3. Section V. Configuring backups
  4. Creating backup policies
  5. Planning for policies
  6. Policy attributes that affect how clients are grouped in policies
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Policy attributes that affect how clients are grouped in policies

The following table lists the attributes that may determine which clients are grouped in the same policy.

Table: Policy attributes that affect how clients are grouped in policies

Attribute

Description

Policy Type

Each client must be in a policy of the correct policy type. For example, Windows clients must be in a policy of a MS-Windows policy type.

Destination

All of the data that the policy generates is sent to the same destination that is indicated in the policy. The data must share the same Data Classification, Policy storage, and Policy volume pool.

See Data classifications (policy attribute).

See Policy storage (policy attribute).

See Policy volume pool (policy attribute).

Job Priority

This attribute determines the priority for the backups of all of the clients in the policy.

Follow NFS

Select this attribute if a UNIX client has NFS mounted files to be backed up. Consider placing these clients in a separate policy so problems with NFS do not affect the other clients.

Cross mount points

This attribute lets NetBackup cross file system boundaries for all clients in the policy.

Backup Network Drives

This attribute lets NetBackup back up the files that all clients in the policy store on network drives. (Applies only to the MS-Windows policy type.)

Compression

This attribute indicates that all clients in the policy are to compress their backups before they send them to the server. Note that the time to compress can increase backup time and make it unsuitable to use for all clients. Consider creating a different policy for those clients.

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Policy type (policy attribute)

Job priority (policy attribute)

Follow NFS (policy attribute)

Cross mount points (policy attribute)

Backup Network Drives (policy attribute)

Compression (policy attribute)

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