Policy-Based Data Protection Management

Recovery Appliance simplifies management through the protection policy. Benefits include the following:

• A protection policy defines recovery window goals that are enforced for each database for backups to the Recovery Appliance or a tape device.

  Using protection policies, you can group databases by recovery service tier. For example, databases protected by the Platinum policy require backups to be kept for 45 days on the Recovery Appliance and 90 days on tape, which means that backups aged 45 days or less exist on disk and tape, but backups older than 45 days are only on tape. Databases protected by the Gold policy require 35 days on the local Recovery Appliance and 90 days on tape. Optionally, you can define a maximum retention time within each policy to limit the space consumed, and to comply with service level agreements dictating that backups cannot be maintained for longer than a specified period.

• Protection policies are means of grouping databases, improving manageability.

  For example, you can configure Recovery Appliance replication or copy-to-tape for a specific protection policy, which means that the configuration applies to all databases associated with this policy. If you add a database to the policy, then the database automatically inherits the configurations and scheduling of the policy.

See Also:

• "Protection Policies"

• Managing Protection Policies with Recovery Appliance