1. Administrator's Guide
  2. Managing Recovery Appliance
  3. Managing Protection Policies with Recovery Appliance
  4. About Protection Policies
  5. Purpose of Protection Policies

Purpose of Protection Policies

For every database associated with it, a protection policy specifies:

  • The recovery window goal for disk backups

  • The recovery window for tape backups

  • Whether Recovery Appliance must replicate backups or copy them to tape before deleting them

  • Which Recovery Appliance storage location is used for backups

  • An optional backup polling policy

You can attach multiple protected databases to a single protection policy. A Recovery Appliance may have a variety of protection policies to support different data protection support levels. For example, protection policies can be generic service levels such as gold, silver, and bronze. Alternatively, policies can be specific to the requirements of protected databases and applications.