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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ for DB2 Administrator's Guide
  3. Configuring NetBackup for DB2
  4. About configuring a backup policy for DB2
  5. About policy attributes
Veritas NetBackup™ for DB2 Administrator's Guide

About policy attributes

With a few exceptions, NetBackup manages the policy attributes set for a database backup like a file system backup. Other policy attributes vary according to your specific backup strategy and system configuration.

For more information on policy attributes, see the NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume I.

Table: Policy attribute for NetBackup for DB2 policies

Attribute

Description

Policy type

Determines the types of clients that can be backed up with the policy. For DB2 databases, select the policy type DB2.

Keyword phrase

For NetBackup for DB2, the Keyword phrase entry is ignored.

Snapshot Client and Replication Director

This group contains the options that enable backups with Snapshot Client.

See NetBackup for DB2 with Snapshot Client features.

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