Overview of Protection Policies
A protection policy is a named, logical object recorded in the Recovery Appliance metadata database. To be added to a Recovery Appliance, a protected database must be associated with a specific protection policy. The default protection polices are Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Bronze.
Each protection policy specifies different values for the disk and tape recovery windows. These values apply to every database protected by the policy. For example, Figure 7-1 shows three of the default protection policies, with different protected databases assigned to each policy. In the example, databases prod3 and prod11 are in the same policy, and so both have the same disk recovery window goal of 3 days.
