Media vaulting policy hierarchy
• Default Site-Wide Vaulting Policy. When creating a new site, configure a default
vaulting policy for all new media pools created in that site using the Site Config-
uration window.
• Create onsite vaults or offsite vendor locations for use in the site-wide vaulting
policy before you apply this policy.
• If you modify a policy, you can apply the changes to any media pools that
use the old default policy. You can also apply the new policy to any media
in those media pools (by default, policy change only applies to new media).
• The site-wide vaulting policy cannot be deleted.
• Media Pools. Each pool has a vaulting policy that applies to all media in the pool.
This policy is configured in the Edit Media Pools window. If you modify a pool-
level vaulting policy, you can apply the changes to all media in that pool.
• Backup Specifications. You can define a vaulting policy that applies to a specific
backup specification (and all media used by that backup specification). Use this
to define vaulting policies for media that contain critical data (based on the
backup specification used to back up critical data) and require specific vaulting
policies. Configure this policy via the Edit Backup Specification window.
• Any policy set at this level overrides pool-level policies.
• If you modify a backup-level vaulting policy, you can apply the changes to
all media used by the backup specification.
• If a backup specification uses devices in multiple sites, you cannot set a backup-
level policy for that backup specification.
• Systems. Vaulting policies that apply to a system (and all media used by the
backup specifications that reference that system) are configured via the Edit Sys-
tems window.
• A policy set at this level overrides backup-level and pool-level policies.
• If you modify a system-level vaulting policy, you can apply this change to all
media associated with that system.
• Vaulting Policies for Copy Media. For any media belonging to Backup Managers
that support copy operations (such as Data Protector A.06.00, A.06.10, and
A.06.11), you can define different vaulting policies (at site, pool, backup specific-
ation, and system levels of the policy hierarchy).
For example, in pool AB_PROD, you can set Policy1 as the primary policy for
that pool, and Policy2 as the policy for copy media. Media used for backups
then have Policy1, and copy media have Policy2. If you do not define a
copy policy to an object in the hierarchy, the primary policy is applied to copies.
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