[Veritas-bu] Policy Best Practices

Agreed with the Calendar schedule - the way our policies are set, its just
easier to simply deactive the weekly policies and enable the monthly.

Then as long as the monthly policies complete, deactivate the month ends and
enable the weekly.

Not that hard to do :-)

Simon Weaver 
Technical Support 
Windows Domain Administrator 

EADS Astrium 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org] 
Sent: 01 February 2006 15:21
To: Martin, Jonathan (Contractor)
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Policy Best Practices


On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 08:53:40AM -0500, Martin, Jonathan (Contractor)
wrote:
> 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?

If I had to do it over again, I'd probably do one policy per server. This
makes it *much* easier to disable a client while it's being worked on,
rebuilt, or whatever.

The incremental and the full have to be in the policy. 

> 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?

NetBackup does the smartest thing within a policy and it depends on if
you're using frequency-based scheduling or calendar-based scheduling. If you
use frequency-based and a weekly and a monthly happen to fall on the same
day, the monthly will run today and the weekly will run the next time a
window opens.  With calendar-based scheduling, you can tell it to ignore
certain days for say your weekly and do the monthly backup instead.  We
don't like calendar-based scheduling very much since it's much, much harder
to deal with failures.

        .../Ed

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