General Attributes on the Attributes Tab

The general attributes on the Add New Policy or Change Policy Attributes tab determine the basic characteristics of all the backups that NetBackup performs according to a policy. These include:

• Whether the policy is active and what date and time the policy will go into effect (so NetBackup can use it for backups).
• The type of backup policy, which primarily defines the type of clients the policy is set up to include.
• The priority that NetBackup gives to the backups for this policy relative to other policies.
• The storage unit that NetBackup uses by default when backing up clients covered by this policy. This setting can be overridden for individual schedules by specifying a storage unit for the schedule.