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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  3. Section V. Configuring backups
  4. Creating backup policies
  5. Policy Attributes tab
  6. Media Owner (policy attribute)
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Media Owner (policy attribute)

The Media Owner attribute specifies which media server or server group should own the media that backup images for this policy are written to.

This attribute is active under the following conditions:

  • A Media Manager storage unit is used.

  • The Policy storage attribute is set to Any Available

You can specify the following for the Media Owner:

Any (default)

Allows NetBackup to select the media owner. NetBackup selects a media server or a server group (if one is configured).

None

Specifies that the media server that writes the image to the media owns the media. No media server is specified explicitly, but you want a media server to own the media.

A server group

Allows only those servers in the group to write to the media on which backup images for this policy are written. All server groups that are configured appear in the list.

More Information

About media sharing

Creating or deleting a NetBackup server group

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