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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  3. Section III. Configuring storage
  4. Configuring storage units
  5. Creating a storage unit
  6. Disk storage unit considerations
  7. Disk storage units in storage lifecycle policies
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Disk storage units in storage lifecycle policies

Figure: Storage lifecycle policies and disk storage units referencing disk pools is an example of how storage lifecycle policies can interact with volumes in a disk pool that a storage unit references.

Two backup policies are created as follows:

  • A backup policy named Policy_gold has a gold classification. For storage, it is configured to use an SLP named Lifecycle_Gold, which has a gold data classification.

  • A backup policy named Policy_silver has a silver classification. For storage, it is configured to use Any Available. That means it can use any available storage unit or any SLP that has a silver classification.

Two storage units are available to both backup policies as follows:

  • DSU_1 is an operation in Lifecycle_Gold and references DiskPool_A.

  • DSU_2 is not in an SLP and references DiskPool_A.

DiskPool_A contains three disk volumes. Both the gold and the silver images can be written to any disk volume in the pool.

Figure: Storage lifecycle policies and disk storage units referencing disk pools

Storage lifecycle policies and disk storage units referencing disk pools

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