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  3. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  5. Section IV. Configuring storage lifecycle policies (SLPs)
  7. Storage lifecycle policy options
  9. New or Change Storage Operation dialog box settings
  11. Properties tab of the Storage Operation dialog box
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Properties tab of the Storage Operation dialog box

Table: Properties tab of the Storage Operation dialog box describes the options available to configure for the various operations in a storage lifecycle policy. Not all options are available for each operation.

Table: Properties tab of the Storage Operation dialog box

Setting

Description

Source

Indicates the storage unit that is the source for the operation.

The Source displays for the following operation types: Backup From Snapshot, Replication, Duplication, and Index From Snapshot.

Operation

The Operation selection determines which options appear in the dialog box.

See Operation types in a storage lifecycle policy.

See About writing multiple copies using a storage lifecycle policy.

Retention type

Select a Retention type from the following options:

  • See Capacity managed retention type for SLP operations.

  • See Expire after copy retention type for SLP operations.

  • See Fixed retention type for SLP operations.

  • See Maximum snapshot limit retention type for SLP operations.

  • See Mirror retention type for SLP operations.

  • See Target retention type for SLP operations.

See Retention types for storage lifecycle policy operations.

Retention period

Specifies how long NetBackup retains the backup or copy. To set the retention period, select a time period (or level) from the list. When the retention period expires, NetBackup deletes information about the expired backup or copy. After expiration, the files are unavailable for restores. For example, if the retention is set to two weeks, data can be restored from a backup that this schedule performs for two weeks after the backup.

See Retention Periods properties.

Target master

Indicates that the copy of the image is to be created in a different master server domain. The target master server manages the storage where the image is to be copied.

If Target master is selected for a Replication operation, the operation becomes an operation for Auto Image Replication.

Local storage

Indicate the storage unit to be used.

Select from the following storage units:

  • Media Manager storage units (tape)

  • Disk storage units (no BasicDisk or disk staging storage units)

  • Storage unit groups (may contain no BasicDisk or disk staging storage units). A storage lifecycle policy can point to a storage unit group that contains a BasicDisk storage unit. However, NetBackup does not select BasicDisk storage units from a storage group for a lifecycle policy.

Storage units or storage unit groups may appear in more than one storage lifecycle policy. Storage units or storage unit groups may be used in a storage lifecycle policy while also being used as standalone units.

Storage unit

Indicate the storage unit to be used.

Select from the following storage units:

  • Media Manager storage units (tape)

  • Disk storage units (no BasicDisk or disk staging storage units)

  • Storage unit groups (may contain no BasicDisk or disk staging storage units). A storage lifecycle policy can point to a storage unit group that contains a BasicDisk storage unit. However, NetBackup does not select BasicDisk storage units from a storage group for a lifecycle policy.

  • No storage unit

    A storage unit selection is necessary if the snapshot is to be used by a subsequent Replication operation or if the SLP contains only one operation. If neither situation applies to the SLP, the administrator may select No storage unit or may simply make no selection.

Storage units or storage unit groups may appear in more than one lifecycle. Storage units or storage unit groups may be used in a storage lifecycle while also being used as standalone units.

Volume pool

The Volume pool option is enabled for tape storage units or virtual tape libraries (VTL).

Media owner

A Media owner is a group of NetBackup servers that are used for a common purpose. By specifying a Media owner, you allow only those media servers to write to the media on which backup images for a policy are written.

Alternate read server

An Alternate read server specifies the name of the server that is allowed to read a backup image originally written by a different media server. This option is available for Duplication operations only.

Preserve multiplexing

The Preserve Multiplexing option is available for the duplication operations that use tape media or virtual tape libraries (VTL). If the backup to be duplicated is multiplexed and you want the backups to remain multiplexed, check Preserve Multiplexing.

To preserve multiplexing significantly improves performance of duplication jobs because it eliminates the need to request the write-side duplication media for every image.

Override job priority

The Override job priority option is available for an Import operation. The job priority that is indicated is the job priority for any import jobs which use this storage lifecycle policy.

Postpone creation of this copy until the source copy is about to expire

Enable this option to defer the job until the source for the duplication is about to expire. When this option is enabled, the job begins 4 hours before the source is to expire. This default can be changed by changing the Deferred duplication offset time in the SLP Parameters host properties.

See SLP Parameters properties.

Advanced button and Window close preference options

If a window closes and the jobs for an SLP have not completed, NetBackup attempts to suspend the images that are in progress. When the window reopens, NetBackup resumes those jobs at the point they were when suspended.

Not all images can be suspended. The image must be the result of a duplication job where both the source and target of the duplication resides on either an AdvancedDisk or Media Manager storage unit.

In addition, the duplication job must meet the following conditions:

  • The storage units must not be part of a storage unit group.

  • The duplications were not created using optimized duplication, NDMP duplication, or OpenStorage duplication.

See Duplication operation in an SLP.

Note:

The closing of the window does not stop preliminary operations for some jobs. For example, NetBackup continues to extend the catalog for Exchange Granular Recovery after the window closes, but does not start duplications.

Images that result from all other operations (such as Replication operations), are not suspended.

Click the Advanced button to display the Window close preference options. The selections apply to the images that NetBackup does not suspend automatically.

Select what NetBackup should do if images are not completed by the time the window closes and if the images cannot be suspended:

  • Finish processing the active images.

    The window closes, but NetBackup continues to process the active images until they are finished. NetBackup does not begin to process any other images until the window reopens.

  • Cancel the processing of the active images.

    The window closes and NetBackup immediately stops processing the active images. When the window reopens, NetBackup begins to process the images where it left off.

Figure: Windows close preference selections for secondary operations

Windows close preference selections for secondary operations

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