To each his own, of course, but I believe the one client per policy setup is actually just as easy, if not easier to manage than the multiple clients per policy type. I laid out my reasoning for this a while back:
http://www.backupcentral.com/content/view/51/47/ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Donaldson, Mark Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 8:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Policy types Some people swear by the one-client, one-policy method. I'm not one of them. The only reason I can see to do this is the ease of turning off backups for a client. In 9+ years of doing Netbackup, I think I've done this less than a half-dozen times. Even with multiple clients per policy, you can do this with a "bpclient" command by setting "jobs per client" to zero. I like grouping. I have 5 unix policies & 5 windows policies that contain the great majority of my clients. Each policy has a different full backup night so I distribute my full backups across the week. I try to add clients to each policy based on the volume each policy does, adding a new client to the policy with the current, least volume of weekly backups. (I've got a little shell script that prints out one week's totals that I use.) My filelists for backup are "/" with "Cross mountpoints" checked and I manage what shouldn't be backed up via exclude lists. If somebody alters a server, changes the mountpoints, etc. the policies just catch the change auto-magically. Now, all that said, about 20% of my servers need special treatment. Firewalled servers can't back up to anything but my central master server (firewall rules) so they need different storage units. I have a pair of policies for firewalled servers as a result. I have a group of NT servers that only need the "C" & "D" drives backed up so their in their own policy with a fixed include list.' There's a couple more one-off policies for special-purpose or "special-needs" servers. But, in general, I like the use of multiple clients per policy and think it great reduces administration time. HTH - M -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of bmcelroy Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 12:44 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Veritas-bu] Policy types We're discussing creating two policies to backup all of our clients...one for all Windows servers and one for all Unix servers. I think this would make administration much easier. Can any of you give me the pros and cons of using only one policy? Thanks, B +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by [email protected] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [email protected]. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - [email protected] http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - [email protected] http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - [email protected] http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
