Directives for Specific Policy Types

Some directives apply only to specific policy types and can appear only in backup selections lists for those policies. NetBackup passes policy-specific directives to the clients along with the backup selections list. The clients then perform the appropriate action according to the directive. The policy types that currently have their own backup selections list directives are:

• AFS
• FlashBackup
• NDMP
• Split-Mirror
• Lotus-Notes
• MS-Exchange-Server

For example, the following directives can appear only in the backup selections list for an AFS policy:

CREATE_BACKUP_VOLUMES

SKIP_SMALL_VOLUMES

Except for AFS, the above policy types can be used when their associated separately-priced option is installed.

For information on the other policies and their backup selections list directives, see the NetBackup guide for the option.