Backup policies, which are also referred to as service level agreement (SLA) policies,
define parameters that are applied to backup jobs. These parameters include the frequency and
retention of backups.
About this task
IBM Spectrum® Protect
Plus includes default SLA
policies as described in Managing SLA policies for backup operations. You can
use the default policies as they are or modify the policies. You can also create custom SLA
policies.
For example purposes, the following steps show how to create an SLA policy for
VMware. This task does not include instructions for enabling replication for vSnap servers or for
copying data to secondary backup storage, which are optional features. For information about how to
set up these features in the SLA policy, see Creating an SLA policy for hypervisors, databases, and file systems.
Backup copies of data are called snapshots.
Procedure
To create an SLA policy, complete the following steps:
In the navigation pane, click Manage
Protection > Policy Overview.
Click Add SLA Policy.
The New SLA Policy pane is displayed.
In the Name field, enter a name that provides a meaningful description
of the SLA policy.
Click VMware, Hyper-V, Exchange, Office365, SQL, Oracle, Db2,
MongoDB and Windows File Systems.
In the Backup Policy section, set the following options for backup
operations. These operations occur on the vSnap servers that are defined in the System Configuration > Backup Storage > Disk window.
Retention
Specify the retention period for the backup
snapshots.
Disable Schedule
Select this check box to create the main policy without defining a frequency or start time.
Policies that are created without a schedule can be run on-demand.
Frequency
Restriction: The days of the week for Weeks option is available
only if you install IBM Spectrum Protect
Plus interim fix 10.1.6
eFix2 or later.
Enter a frequency for backup operations. Choose from Minutes,
Hours, Days, Weeks,
Months, or Years. When Weeks is
selected, you may select one or more days of the week. The Start Time will
apply to the selected days of the week.
Start Time
Enter the date and time that you want the backup operation to start.
The time zone is
automatically populated with your browser settings. To update the time zone, click the field and
select a region and city from the list, for example: Europe/Dublin. You can
also click the field and enter a region or city in the Search field, and
select an item from the matching results.
Target Site
Select the target backup site for backing up data.
A site can contain one or more vSnap servers. If more than one vSnap server is in a site,
IBM Spectrum Protect
Plus server manages data placement in the
vSnap servers.
Only sites that are associated with a vSnap server are shown in this list. Sites that are added
to IBM Spectrum Protect
Plus, but are not associated with a vSnap
server, are not shown.
Only use encrypted disk storage
Select this check box to back up data to encrypted vSnap servers if your environment includes a
mixture of encrypted and unencrypted servers.
Restriction: If this option is selected and there are no encrypted vSnap servers
available, the associated job will fail.
The following example shows a new SLA policy named Copper that runs
every 3 days at midnight with a retention of 1 month: