Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

To add backup selections to a policy

1. In the NetBackup Administration Console, expand NetBackup Management > Policies.
2. Open the policy where you want to add a backup selection.
3. Select the Backup Selections tab and perform one of the following actions:

   Entering a path to a directory	Click Browse to browse to a specific client to specify the path to the directory that you want to backup up. Or enter the pathname directly in the Pathname or directive field. The Browse button toggles to an Add button after a selection is made. Click Add to add the path to the selection list. A path may contain up to 1023 characters. See Pathname rules for Windows client backups. See Pathname rules for UNIX client backups.
   Selecting a directive set or directive	Select or enter a directive or a directive set in the Pathname or Directive set drop-down menu. Click Add to add the directive to the selection list. See About the directives on the Backup Selections list.
   Selecting a script or template	Select or enter a script or template in the Script or template drop-down menu. Templates are stored in a known location on the master server and do not need to be installed on each client in the Clients list. Enter only the template file name, without a path. For example: weekly_full_backup.tpl Scripts require that you specify the full path. Be sure that the scripts that are listed are installed on each of the clients that are specified on the Clients tab. For Oracle policies, select a template set based on an operation from the Template set list. For Oracle polices or DB2 policies, select a template from the Script or template list, or enter the name of a template. Example of an Oracle script on UNIX: install_path/netbackup/ext/db_ext/oracle/samples/ rman/cold_database_backup.sh Example of a DB2 script on UNIX: /myscripts/db2_backup.sh Click Add to add the script or template to the selection list.

   You can select multiple directories and files for backup. The policy type determines whether the backup selections list can contain paths, directives, scripts, templates, or a combination.

   
4. Click OK to add the selection list to the Backup Selections tab in the policy.
5. When you are finished in the Backup Selections tab:

   • Click OK to close and save the policy.

   • Click Cancel to close the policy without saving any additions or changes.