Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Storage lifecycle policy name

The Storage lifecycle policy name describes the SLP. The name cannot be modified after the SLP is created.

Data classification

The Data classification defines the level or classification of data that the SLP is allowed to process. The drop-down menu contains all of the defined classifications as well as the Any classification, which is unique to SLPs.

The Any selection indicates to the SLP that it should preserve all images that are submitted, regardless of their data classification. It is available for SLP configuration only and is not available to configure a backup policy.

In an Auto Image Replication configuration where the master server domains run different versions of NetBackup, see the following topic for special considerations:

See About the storage lifecycle policies required for Auto Image Replication.

The Data classification is an optional setting.

One data classification can be assigned to each SLP and applies to all operations in the SLP.

If a data classification is selected (other than Any), the SLP stores only those images from the policies that are set up for that data classification. If no data classification is indicated, the SLP accepts images of any classification or no classification.

The Data classification setting allows the NetBackup administrator to classify data based on relative importance. A classification represents a set of backup requirements. When data must meet different backup requirements, consider assigning different classifications.

For example, email backup data can be assigned to the silver data classification and financial data backup may be assigned to the platinum classification.

A backup policy associates backup data with a data classification. Policy data can be stored only in an SLP with the same data classification.

Once data is backed up in an SLP, the data is managed according to the SLP configuration. The SLP defines what happens to the data from the initial backup until the last copy of the image has expired.

Priority for secondary operations

The Priority for secondary operations option is the priority that jobs from secondary operations have in relationship to all other jobs. The priority applies to the jobs that result from all operations except for Backup and Snapshot operations. Range: 0 (default) to 99999 (highest priority).

For example, you may want to set the Priority for secondary operations for a policy with a gold data classification higher than for a policy with a silver data classification.

The priority of the backup job is set in the backup policy on the Attributes tab.

See Job priority (policy attribute).

Operations

Use the Add, Change, and Remove buttons to create a list of operations in the SLP. An SLP must contain one or more operations. Multiple operations imply that multiple copies are created.

See About writing multiple copies using a storage lifecycle policy.

The list also contains the columns that display information about each operation. Not all columns display by default.

For column descriptions, see the following topic:

See New or Change Storage Operation dialog box settings.

Arrows

Use the arrows to indicate the indentation (or hierarchy) of the source for each copy. One copy can be the source for many other copies.

See Creating a hierarchy of storage operations in a storage lifecycle policy.

See Modifying the hierarchy of operations in a storage lifecycle policy.

Active

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Postponed

The Active and Postponed options appear under State of Secondary Operation Processing and refer to the processing of all duplication operations in the SLP.

Validate Across Backup Policies button

Click this button to see how changes to this SLP can affect the policies that are associated with this SLP. The button generates a report that displays on the Validation Report tab.

This button performs the same validation as the -conflict option performs when used with the nbstl command.

See Storage lifecycle policy Validation Report tab.