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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  3. Section IV. Configuring storage lifecycle policies (SLPs)
  4. Retention types for SLP operations
  5. Capacity managed retention type for SLP operations
  6. Rules and recommendations for using the Capacity Managed retention type
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Rules and recommendations for using the Capacity Managed retention type

Use the following recommendations and rules when configuring storage operations or when selecting the storage location for a policy:

  • It is not recommended to allow Capacity Managed images and Fixed retention images to be written to the same volume in a disk storage unit. The volume may fill with fixed-retention images and not allow the space management logic to operate as expected.

  • All SLPs that write to a volume in a disk storage unit should write images of the same retention type: Fixed or Capacity Managed.

  • Do not write images both to a volume in a disk storage unit within a storage lifecycle policy and to the same volume (by the storage unit) directly from a policy.

  • Mark all disk storage units that are used with SLPs as On demand only.

  • Check any storage unit groups to make sure that fixed and capacity-managed images cannot be written to the same volume in a disk storage unit.

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