Specifying policy binding statements

Bind policy statements to associate Microsoft™ Exchange Server backups to a management policy.

About this task

A default policy binds any backups that are not explicitly bound to a named policy. Policy binding is available in environments with or without an IBM Storage Protect™ server.

For Exchange Database Availability Groups (DAG), all the DAG members that share the DAG node must use the same VSS policy.

Tip: Use the same policy binding method for Exchange Server backups. Define a policy statement in the configuration file.

Procedure

Specify the policy-binding statements to use to bind snapshots to a policy. Manually add the binding statements in the respective configuration file that defines the policy statements.

Policy-binding statements in the Data Protection for Exchange Server configuration files might look similar to the information in the following table.

	`server name`	`object name`	`backup type`	`backup dest`	`mgmt class`
`VSSPOLICY`	`*`	`"Accounting"`	`FULL`	`LOCAL`	`MC_1`
`VSSPOLICY`	`SERVER_3`	`"Human Resources"`	`INCR`	`LOCAL`	`MC_6`