NetBackup is pretty weird in this area, IMHO.  In order to to have 
multiple retentions in one Oracle Agent policy, you need to have 
multiple application backup schedules, not just a default application 
backup schedule.

As with regular file system backups, separate policies are independent 
(except that your agent script probably erases archive redologs under 
some circumstances).

The archives of this mailing list are filled with advice on agent 
backups, how they work and how people use them. I recommend searching 
for posts of " Michael F. Lavelle" for excellent information on the subject.

Everything I've written above applies to v5 ... I haven't moved to v6.0.

cheers, wayne

> I am going through the NetBackup for Oracle Admin
> guide, it mentions that you can have multiple
> schedules in the policy with different retention
> periods. That is you can have a FULL backup schedule
> with retention period of 1 year and an INCREMENTAL
> backup schedule with retention of 1 month.
>
> This may be new in NBU 6, but I remeber in NBU 5.x,
> the retention period that was always used was that of
> Default-Application-Backup schedule.
>
> So in my NBU 5.0 environment, I have ONE policy for
> FULL Oracle backup with 1 year retention and ONE
> Oracle policy for INCREMENTAL backups with 1 month
> retention. Each policy has 2 schedules in it, one of
> those is Default-Application-Backup schedule, both
> schedule have same retntion period, i.e. for FULL
> Backup policy retention period for both schedules is 1
> year and for INCREMENTAL policy retention period for
> both schedules is 1 month.
>
> So my question is, is it the same behaviour in NBU 6.0
> for Oracle and SQL backups, or it has changed.
>