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

Attribute

Description

Policy type

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

Follow NFS

This option is available for SAP policies on UNIX. Select this attribute to back up the files from NFS-mounted file systems. If this option is not selected, NetBackup cannot perform a backup of NFS-mounted files.

Also see the NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume I.

Note:

This option is not available for snapshot backups.

Keyword phrase

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

Snapshot Client and Replication Director

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

More Information

Backing up files mounted with LOFS with NetBackup for SAP (UNIX or Linux)

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