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  3. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  5. Section V. Configuring backups
  7. Creating backup policies
  9. Policy Attributes tab
  11. Policy storage (policy attribute)
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Policy storage (policy attribute)

The Policy storage attribute specifies the storage destination for the policy's data. Select a specific storage unit, storage lifecycle policy, or storage unit group from the list.

When NetBackup looks for an available storage unit, it selects the first storage unit that meets the following requirements:

  • The storage unit must not be designated as On demand only.

  • The storage unit must have available drives.

  • The storage unit must have media available in the required volume pool.

However, NetBackup makes an exception when a client is also a media server with locally-attached storage units. In that case, NetBackup selects the locally-attached storage units first.

See About staging backups.

Storage unit

Select the name of the storage unit that is to be the storage destination for the policy data. It can be disk or tape-based.

If it is configured to do so, the storage unit determines which type of disk staging is used for the policy.

See Creating a storage unit.

Storage lifecycle policy

Select the name of the storage lifecycle policy that is to be the storage destination for the policy data.

The drop-down list includes only those lifecycles that have the same data classification as the policy. For example, gold backup images cannot be sent to a silver storage lifecycle. Images that belong to a specific data classification cannot be sent to a storage lifecycle that lacks a classification. Data classification is optional.

See Global Attributes properties.

If it is configured to do so, the storage lifecycle policy determines which type of disk staging is used for the policy.

If setting up snapshot replication with Replication Director, select a storage lifecycle policy that contains a snapshot-capable storage unit.

See About storage lifecycle policies.

Storage unit group

Select the name of the storage unit group that is to be the storage destination for the policy data.

See About storage unit groups .

Any Available

If Any Available is selected, NetBackup tries to store data on locally-attached storage units first. To force NetBackup to use only a locally-attached drive, select Must use local drive in the General Server properties. If a local device is not found or Must use local drive is not selected, NetBackup tries to find an available storage unit alphabetically.

NetBackup does not select a null_stu storage unit if Any Available is selected. A null_stu storage unit is created only when Veritas Technical Support uses the NullOST plug-in to identify and isolate data transfer bottlenecks.

Figure: Icons indicate type of storage

Icons indicate type of storage

Note:

If different storage is selected for the Override policy storage option on the Schedule Attributes tab, that selection overrides the Policy storage attribute.

See Override policy storage (schedule attribute).

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Considerations for selecting a destination for Policy storage

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