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Planning Guidelines for Classes
Classes allow you to meet the needs of a wide variety of clients in a single
NetBackup configuration. Taking full advantage of classes requires careful
planning. The following procedure provides some planning guidelines.
1. Divide clients into groups according to the types of work they perform.
Clients used for similar tasks usually have a high level of commonality in
their backup requirements. For example, most clients in an engineering
department create the same types of files at similar levels of importance.
In some instances, you can create a class for each group and this will be
adequate for defining your classes. In other cases, you will have to further
subdivide the clients based on their backup requirements as explained in
later this procedure.
The table below is the initial grouping for our example. We assume these
clients are in same work group and the initial plan is to have them all in the
same class.
2. Gather information about each client. Include information relevant to the
backups such as the names, size, and number of files.
Clients
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mars
jupiter
neptune
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NetBackup 3.2 System Administrator's Guide for Windows NT
NetBackup 3.2 System Administrator's Guide for Windows NT
