There is also another wrinkle to this methodology (at least in versions
prior to 6.0) that I don't think has been discussed yet -

If you remove the client from the policy, and the client only lived in
that one policy, you have lost all your client host properties
(exclusions, email addresses, etc.).

One way to prevent this is to first add the client to a "temporary" or
"holding" policy which you can deactivate or blank the schedules if you
wish. When you add the client back to it's original policy, all your
client host properties have been preserved. As long as the client goes
back to it's original policy, you also have it's prior backups that are
still in the catalog for it to reference for CINC or Diff backups.


Kent Eagle
Systems Engineer
MTS Infrastructure Engineer II, MCP, MCSE
Tech Services / SMSS

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Message: 8
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:38:00 -0500
From: David Rock <dave-bu at graniteweb.com>
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] excluding a single host
To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Message-ID: <20070424163800.GC31173 at wdfs.graniteweb.com>
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* Jeff Lightner <jlightner at water.com> [2007-04-19 13:18]:
> Just modify the policy to remove the 5th host.   When you're ready to
> resume add the 5th host back to the list.
> 

I had heard that a MP or perhaps 6.5 will finally have the ability to
simply check a box to temporarily disable backups of a single client in
a policy.  Not holding my breath, though.  Being forced to remove a
client to do this is just stupid. 

-- 
David Rock
david at graniteweb.com
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