Policies allow you to group virtual machines in many ways. For example, based on the type of hypervisor.
To create a new backup policy, open the Backup SLAs tab under the Virtual Environments section and click on the button on the right.
Now you should see the policy wizard with 5 main sections.
Under this section, you can set up:
The policy name
Switch on/off auto-remove non-present virtual environments
Set the priority for tasks
In this section, you can configure automatic policy assignments based on certain criteria:
Mode
Disabled
Assign only
Assign and remove
Include or exclude rules based on hypervisor tags or regular expressions matching the VM name, i.e.:
regular expression examples:
.* match any character any number of times
vm-[0-9][0-9][0-9] - match the name that starts with vm- and 3 digits
(prod|uat|dev)-[0-9][0-9][0-9][a-z]? - match the name that starts with prod or uat or dev prefix, then -, then 3 digits and an optional lower-case letter (matching is case-sensitive)
exclude rules always take precedence over include rules
VMs will not be reassigned to a different policy if they already have a matching policy assigned
VMs will be reassigned to a different policy only if the mode is Assign and remove, the current policy assignment rules don't match, and other's policy rules match
rules are joined with the OR operator, so
if any rule (tag or matched regular expression) excludes the VM - it will be excluded
if no rule (tag or matched regular expression) excludes the VM, and any rule (tag or matched regular expression) includes the VM - it will be included
You can also select clusters to match only VMs that belong to them.
Here, you can easily select virtual machines manually.
This section is used to select the backup destination.
You can also set here Retention settings for your backups. You can use a number of days and versions for full and incremental backups.
If you have already created a schedule, you can also select it or Create New Schedule.
vPlus handles retention for all backup destinations except NetBackup. Four properties define how long the backup should be kept in the backup destination:
Retention (Full) - no. of versions to keep - number of full backups
Retention (Inc.) - no. of versions to keep - number of incremental backups
Retention (Full) - no. of days to keep - number of days to keep a full backup
Retention (Inc.) - no. of days to keep - number of days to keep an incremental backup
Whichever condition is met first (either the number of versions has been reached or the backup is older than the given limit), is removed from the backup destination.
An immutable backup is a feature that is used to prevent modification or deletion of backups for a predetermined period. That is, immutable backups are read-only until their retention period expires.
This is an optional section with the following option:
Quiesce/freeze before snapshot
Fail the rest of the backup tasks if more than xx% of the EXPORT tasks have already failed
Fail the rest of the backup tasks if more than xx% of the STORE tasks have already failed
Visibility for all projects
In the end, save settings.
Note. If you are using backup destination, you have only two options for retention:
Note. You can also perform the same action thanks to the CLI interface: .
