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How to associate a policy to a setup job?

Updated: 11 Jan 2011 | 6 comments
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I'm following up on this thread. I've created the policy and rule but, how do I link it to the back up job? The policy does not allow selections to be made so there must be a way to link the two. Any help is much appreciated.

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You create a selection list.

You create a selection list. Right click policy choose to create a new job using policy and associate it with selection list created before. A policy with 2 templates when merged with one selection list will create 2 jobs.

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Okay, BEsymc, that got me

Okay, BEsymc, that got me going. However, since associating the policy with an existing job creats two job as you have said, that means I should delete/disabled my initial backup job so that it's no longer running since the two jobs created the by policy will take care of my backup, correct?

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It depends on number of

It depends on number of templates in policy. I just took an example of two templates. So, it is 1-1 relation between template and selection list. Your initial jobs have no relationship with this new policy. This policy will create fresh jobs and to avoid duplicate jobs, you would rather hold or delete old jobs.

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Okay, I'll give it a try and

Okay, I'll give it a try and see if it works in the next one or two weeks.

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Correct. If you're replacing

Correct. If you're replacing a backup job with a policy, Backup Exec will run both the original job and the policy job unless you delete the original job. You could just put it on hold until you're happy that the policy job is working correctly.