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Groups of Backup Specifications
Data Protector offers you the ability to organize backup specifications
into different groups. The purpose of grouping is to organize the
specifications of multiple backups.
For example, backup specifications for “Corporation X” can be classified
into three different groups:
• USER_FILES: This group contains backup specifications that
perform weekly, full backups for all users in each of the ten
departments. This is the main production backup.
• SERVERS_DR: This group contains backup specifications for the
company's servers to prepare for disaster recovery. Each time a new
server is installed or an existing server is upgraded, a new backup
specification is created and added to this group.
• END_USER: This group is used to save backup specifications that
are made as a result of an end-user request. For example, end users
who want to free up some disk space have to archive their own hard
disk first.
See Figure 5-26 on page 223.
Such a configuration can result in many backup specifications, often as
many as 50, which are hard to manage if they are viewed together.
Grouping the backup specifications into meaningful groups can facilitate
finding and maintaining single backup specifications. This allows you to
apply common options settings from a template to the entire group.
For example, if you want to change the list of devices to all backup
specifications in the group, you can selectively apply the device settings
of a template.