I try and group policies based on factors like:

Exchange Backups
Oracle
SQL
Windows
Linux
Vault

If its a standard file level type backup, then I group them together,
using the ALL LOCAL DRIVES directive.

For some servers, like clusters, this is not done, and a policy would be
configured for drives only needed to be backed up!

Pros and Cons each way. Some people may say client per policy, but I am
not fully conviced. Trying to keep things as simple as possible really.

Simon 

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We're discussing creating two policies to backup all of our
clients...one for all Windows servers and one for all Unix servers.  I
think this would make administration much easier.  Can any of you give
me the pros and cons of using only one policy?

Thanks,
B

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