About storage lifecycle policy retention

While creating a storage lifecycle policy in NetBackup, you can specify the destinations where copies should be created. For an SLP, an image can be written to the initial destination as part of the following operations:

You can define the Retention type for each SLP destination. You can select many retention types like Fixed (1, 2, 3 weeks), Expire after Copy, Staged capacity managed etc. The following table explains the meaning of Fixed and Expire after Copy retention types:

When you are creating a NetBackup policy, the SLP that you created (like SLP1) can be selected as Policy Storage (storage unit). The SLP (SLP1) is executed when the policy runs.