mksafeguardedpolicy

Parameters

-name safeguarded_policy_name

(Optional) Indicates a unique name for the Safeguarded policy. If name is not specified then a unique name is automatically generated with prefix sgpolicy and assigned to the Safeguarded policy.

-backupunit minute | hour | day | month | year

(Required) Specifies the unit of time of the backup interval.

-backupinterval interval_value

(Required) Indicates the interval between Safeguarded backups. The value must be an integer (1 - 65535).

-backupstarttime start_time

(Required) Indicates the time when the Safeguarded backups are started. The value must be in the format YYMMDDHHmm.

• YY is the year.
• MM is the month.
• DD is the day.
• HH is the hour.
• mm is the minute.

Note: If the backup start time is in the past, it will be advanced according to the backup interval until a time in the future is reached. Backup start time does not include seconds.

-retentiondays num_days

(Required) Indicates the number of days to keep the Safeguarded backups. The value must be an integer (1 - 365).

The system supports a maximum of 32 Safeguarded policies with 3 predefined policies and 29 user-defined policies. Predefined policies are named predefinedsgpolicy0, predefinedsgpolicy1, and predefinedsgpolicy2 and cannot be changed in either the command-line interface or the management GUI. User-defined Safeguarded policies have IDs that start following the predefined Safeguarded policies.