Netting Out NetBackup

Last week there was an interesting thread about the preferred strategy for the creation of policies on the Auburn NetBackup list. You can read the thread yourself at the Auburn list archives.  If you aren’t familiar with this email list, it is an email list hosted by Auburn University. You can join the list or view and search the archives here. The list is strictly a peer to peer forum for NetBackup administrators. Occasionally you’ll see a Symantec employee respond to a question, but in general it’s a peer forum. Even if we don’t respond ourselves, you can guarantee we read it on a regular basis.

There are a number of people who always prefer to create one policy per client. One proponent is Curtis Preston, the...