Policies - trying to grasp concepts.

[gweston]

Hi,



I'm trying to grasp the concept of policies and i'm not 100% sure i'm doing this right.



Desired Config:

14 day progressives: primary backup.

weekly copy pool (every 7 days), retention 31 days

monthly copy pool (every 31 days), retention 2 years (24 months)

yearly pool(every 365 days), retention 7 years.



DiskPools: DISKDATA1, DISKDIRS1

Tape Pool: TAPEDATA1

Copy Pools: WEEKLYDATA1, MONTHLYDATA1, YEARLYDATA1



I assume I create a policy domain, and a single policy set. I then set up management classes for the backup, weekly,monthly, and yearly copies. I then define copy groups for each of those with the appropriate expiration values.I am also a tad unsure about what the MIGDESTINATION and DESTINATION values really mean. The help states you cannot use copy pools, so how do you set up your copies?



Example:

define mgmtclass vobserver vobserver data migdestination=TAPEDATA1 description="Default management class for vobserver domain"

assign defmgmtclass vobserver vobserver data

define mgmtclass vobserver vobserver directory migdestination=TAPEDATA1 description="Directory management class for vobserver domain"



define mgmtclass vobserver vobserver weekly migdestination=WEEKLYDATA1 description="Weekly management class for vobserver domain"

define mgmtclass vobserver vobserver weeklydir migdestination=WEEKLYDATA1 description="Weekly management class for vobserver domain"



define copygroup vobserver vobserver data type=Backup destination=DISKDATA1 frequency=1 verexists=14 verdeleted=1 retextra=14 retonly=14 mode=modified serialization=shrstatic

define copygroup vobserver vobserver directory type=Backup destination=DISKDIRS1 frequency=1 verexists=nolimit verdeleted=1 retextra=14 retonly=14 mode=modified serialization=shrstatic



define copygroup vobserver vobserver weekly type=Backup destination=WEEKLYDATA1 frequency=7 verexists=4 verdeleted=1 retextra=31 retonly=31 mode=modified serialization=shrstatic

define copygroup vobserver vobserver weeklydir type=Backup destination=WEEKLYDATA1 frequency=7 verexists=nolimit verdeleted=1 retextra=31 retonly=31 mode=modified serialization=shrstatic



Any insight is much appreciated.

 

[gweston]

Apparently I answered my own question... this is what I finally came up with. I think it'll do the job.





define domain vobserver description="Vob Server nodes" backretention=2555 archretention=2555



define policyset vobserver vobserver description="Vob Server nodes"



define mgmtclass vobserver vobserver data migdestination=NONE description="Default management class for vobserver domain"

assign defmgmtclass vobserver vobserver data

define mgmtclass vobserver vobserver directory migdestination=NONE description="Directory management class for vobserver domain"



define mgmtclass vobserver vobserver weekly migdestination=NONE description="Weekly management class for vobserver domain"

define mgmtclass vobserver vobserver monthly migdestination=NONE description="Monthly management class for vobserver domain"

define mgmtclass vobserver vobserver yearly migdestination=NONE description="Yearly management class for vobserver domain"



define copygroup vobserver vobserver data type=Backup destination=DISKDATA1 frequency=1 verexists=14 verdeleted=1 retextra=14 retonly=14 mode=modified serialization=shrstatic

define copygroup vobserver vobserver directory type=Backup destination=DISKDIRS1 frequency=1 verexists=nolimit verdeleted=1 retextra=31 retonly=2555 mode=modified serialization=shrstatic



define copygroup vobserver vobserver weekly type=Backup destination=DISKDATA1 frequency=7 verexists=4 verdeleted=1 retextra=31 retonly=31 mode=modified serialization=shrstatic

define copygroup vobserver vobserver monthly type=Backup destination=DISKDATA1 frequency=31 verexists=24 verdeleted=1 retextra=730 retonly=730 mode=modified serialization=shrstatic

define copygroup vobserver vobserver yearly type=Backup destination=DISKDATA1 frequency=365 verexists=7 verdeleted=1 retextra=2555 retonly=2555 mode=modified serialization=shrstatic



define copygroup vobserver vobserver data type=Archive destination=DISKDATA1 retver=365 serialization=shrstatic