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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Snapshot Client Administrator's Guide
  3. Instant Recovery configuration
  4. About storage lifecycle policies for snapshots
Veritas NetBackup™ Snapshot Client Administrator's Guide

About storage lifecycle policies for snapshots

A storage lifecycle policy is a storage plan for a set of backups. NetBackup uses the lifecycle policy to determine where to store additional copies of the backup images and how long to retain those copies. In general, short-term copies can be kept on disk (for quick restore) and long-term copies can be kept on tape or other storage.

NetBackup can manage snapshot-based backups for Instant Recovery through storage lifecycle policies.. The Instant Recovery feature makes snapshots available for quick data recovery from disk. Lifecycle policies support a lifecycle storage plan for the storage unit copies that are made during an Instant Recovery backup.

See Configuring a storage lifecycle policy to manage snapshot-based backups for Instant Recovery .

See Storage lifecycle polices and Snapshot Client troubleshooting.

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Instant Recovery requirements

Instant Recovery restrictions

Giving full server privileges to the media server

About Instant Recovery

Configuring a policy for Instant Recovery

About sizing the cache for Instant Recovery copy-on-write snapshots

About configuring VxVM

Modifying the VxVM or FlashSnap resync options for point in time rollback

Instant Recovery for databases

About Instant Recovery capabilities

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