changing client policy

[mccalia1]

Hi all,

I currently have various policy's for different types of Servers e.g SQL, W2K, NT4, Oracle etc.

I wish to delete a policy which has a couple of servers remaining. My thoughts were to move these servers to a different policy and then delete the one I don't need.

The policy that I wish to delete has some images with retentions of 3months, if I go ahead and delete the policy, what problems would I face if I needed to restore one of these tapes and the policy does not exist?

thanks...

 

[mccalia1]

Forgot to add on: what issues would I get by renaming one of the policies as well....

thanks Iain

 

[Stumpr]

The images remain valid until the retention period is reached regardless of the existence of the orignal backup policy.

You will need enough tapes to do first time fulls.
Otherwise the incrementals will be psuedo fulls.

Bob Stump
Incorrigible punster -- Do not incorrige

 

[lenski]

You can not rename policies, the best way is to copy an old one to an new name and then delete the old one.

You can delete a policy at any time it does not matter if it has clients asigned or not.

There are no problems recovering images created by deleted policies. Just put the policy name in as the source like you always have. But of course you need to put in a differant destination.

In short there should be no problems.

 

[mccalia1]

Hi,

thanks for your responses, Lenski I found this document on Veritas support site, it shows a way of renaming an existing policy

http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/268780.htm