Re: [Veritas-bu] Mixing POlicy Types in a Volume Pool

> Has anyone had any issues with not being able to do a successful restore when mixing policy types within a volume pool?

No. And if your full and diff backups have different retention periods, they will end up on different tapes anyhow, even if they are going to the same pool (assuming you don't have "Allow multiple retentions per media" enabled).

We have just 3 pools. "onsite", "offsite" and "archivelogs". The "offsite" pool gets ejected every morning and given to a man with a truck. We direct Oracle archivelog backups to their own pool because we DON'T want them on the same tapes as the database backups. Everything else gets mixed in together.

Cheers,
Dean

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 3:01 PM, stu52 <netbackup-forum AT backupcentral DOT com> wrote:

I have an interesting situation. I am coming into a NBU 6.5.3 environment where the current backup admin has several volume pools. For example, he has set up the following:

- Exchange-Full
- Exchange-Diff
- Sharepoint-Full
- Sharepoint-Diff
- Oracle-Full
- Oracle-Diff

I would like to just narrow this down to two volume pools:
- Full
- Diff

The reason for the Full & the Diff volume pools is to have the data segregated by data retention.

His reason for not doing this is that he claims that if the volume pools are not segregated by Policy Type, the restores will not work properly even though the backup was successful.

Has anyone had any issues with not being able to do a successful restore when mixing policy types within a volume pool?

thanks.

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