Re: [Veritas-bu] Mixing POlicy Types in a Volume Pool

There is no reason, technically speaking that is, for separate volume pools. All the data can live together on the same tapes without any issues. Unix (Standard) data does not have to be segragated from Windows data, etc. The old admin is incorrect in his thinking about restores. The only time you'll have a problem with restores is if the media is in use (by another backup or another restore) or it's offsite (or damaged, God forbid).

It actually sounds like all you need is one volume pool as NetBackup will separate different retention levels onto different tapes by default. Note I said by default. If you have enabled the "Mix Retentions" options (and I really hope it is not enabled), then NBU will put everything together.

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I have an interesting situation. I am coming into a NBU 6.5.3 environment where the current backup admin has several volume pools. For example, he has set up the following: - Exchange-Full - Exchange-Diff - Sharepoint-Full - Sharepoint-Diff - Oracle-Full - Oracle-Diff I would like to just narrow this down to two volume pools: - Full - Diff The reason for the Full & the Diff volume pools is to have the data segregated by data retention. His reason for not doing this is that he claims that if the volume pools are not segregated by Policy Type, the restores will not work properly even though the backup was successful. Has anyone had any issues with not being able to do a successful restore when mixing policy types within a volume pool? thanks. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by stu_liddle AT yahoo DOT com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to abuse AT backupcentral DOT com. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

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