Protection Policies

A protection policy is a named collection of properties that you can assign to multiple protected databases. Using a single policy for multiple databases reduces Recovery Appliance administration time, and enables you to change the properties of multiple protected databases with one operation. To accommodate databases with differing backup and recovery requirements, create as many protection policies as required.

A default installation of Recovery Appliance has the protection policies shown in Table 2-2.

Table 2-2 Default Protection Policies

Service Tier	Recovery Window	Additional Settings
Platinum	45 days on disk, 90 days on tape^Foot 1	Database backups, real-time redo transport, replication, and tape backups. All settings are mandatory.
Gold	35 days on disk, 90 days on tape	Database backups, real-time redo transport, replication, and tape backups (if tape is available).
Silver	10 days on disk, 45 days on tape	Database backups, real-time redo transport, and tape backups (if tape is available).
Bronze	3 days on disk, 30 days on tape	Database backups, and tape backups (if tape is available). There is no real-time redo transport.

^Footnote 1

Backups aged 45 days or less exist on both disk and tape, but backups aged more than 45 days exist only on tape. The Recovery Appliance creates tape backups immediately after disk backups, so the 90 day tape retention period begins at the same time as the 45 day disk retention period.