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Veritas NetBackup™ Vault™ Administrator's Guide

Last Published: 2018-09-19

Product(s): NetBackup (8.3.0.1, 8.3, 8.2, 8.1.2, 8.1.1, 8.1)

Creating a Vault policy

Setting up a Vault policy differs from setting up a regular policy in NetBackup, as follows:

First, you must specify Vault as the policy type.
Second, you do not specify clients for Vault policies.
Third, rather than specifying files to back up on the Backup Selections tab, you specify one of two Vault commands to run.
- Use the vltrun command to run a Vault session. You specify the robot, vault name, and profile for the job. The vltrun command accomplishes all the steps necessary to vault media. If the profile is configured for immediate eject, media are ejected and reports are generated. If the vault profile name is unique, use the following format:
```
vltrun profile_name
```
  If the vault profile name is not unique, use the following format:
```
vltrun robot_number/vault_name/profile_name
```
- Use the vlteject command to eject media or generate reports for sessions that are completed already and for which media have not been ejected. The vlteject command can process the pending ejects or reports for all sessions, for a specific robot, for a specific vault, or for a specific profile. For example:
```
vlteject -vault vault_name -eject -report
```

Note:

Include one Vault command only in a Vault policy. If you use more than one command, the first command is initiated and the successive commands are interpreted as parameters to the first command. Failure may occur and images may not be duplicated or vaulted.

See Ejecting media by using a Vault policy.

For more information about the vlteject and the vltrun commands, see the NetBackup Commands Reference Guide.

For more information about creating NetBackup policies, see the NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume I.

Note:

If you create a vault policy by copying a regular NetBackup policy that has a client list configured, delete all the clients in the client list before you run the policy. If you do not, Vault creates one vault job for every client in the list even though the client is not used by the Vault job. The first vault job operates as a normal vault session; the rest terminate with a status 275 (a session is already running for this vault).

To create a Vault policy

In the NetBackup Administration Console, in the left pane, expand NetBackup Management > Policies.
On the Actions menu, click New > Policy.
Type a unique name for the new policy in the Add a New Policy dialog box.
On the Attributes tab, select Vault as the policy type.
On the Schedules tab, click New to create a new schedule.
The type of backup defaults to Automatic Vault.
Complete the schedule.
On the Backup Selections tab, enter the appropriate Vault command for the policy.
Click OK.