Jonathan
Some examples of what I do:

Policy for Win2k3 DNS Servers - includes Full Backups - Retention of 2
months and Incr Backups Retention of 3 weeks
Policy for AD Servers
Separate Month End Policies (Any weekly policies are disabled over the
weekend period)

I try to minimise the amount of policies I have - therefore for all Win2k3
clients that all have a variety of drives mapped as parititon letters, I
simply select "All local drives" as a backup policy and can stick all the
clients in the single policy.

Hope this helps

Simon Weaver 
Technical Support 
Windows Domain Administrator 

EADS Astrium 
Tel: 02392-708598 

Email: Simon.Weaver AT Astrium.eads DOT net 



-----Original Message-----
From: Martin, Jonathan (Contractor) [mailto:JMARTI05 AT intersil DOT com] 
Sent: 01 February 2006 13:54
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Policy Best Practices


I'm looking for some policy best practices / what is everyone doing to
configure them?

Do you create one policy per machine group (Database Servers, Web Servers
etc..)  or group them by type?  Do you create one policy per type of backup
(Nightly INC, Weekly Full) and put all your servers under them?

Also, if I have a weekly full set to 3 month retention and a Monthly Full
set to 1 year retention in the same policy, and the weekly and month end
both fall in the same range will it make two full backups? How about if they
were in different policies?

Thanks as always!

-Jonathan

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