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NetBackup™ for Enterprise Vault™ Agent Administrator's Guide

Last Published: 2024-09-30

Product(s): NetBackup & Alta Data Protection (10.5)

Creating a backup selections list

On the Backup selections tab you specify the Enterprise Vault components to back up Enterprise Vault sites, servers, databases, indexes, or Enterprise Vault partitions. You use directives to specify the Enterprise Vault components to back up.

Note:

The Enterprise Vault entity names cannot begin with a space or end with a space. Any Enterprise Vault entity name that uses this format is not supported.

NetBackup uses the same backup selection list for all of the clients that are backed up according to the policy.

To create a backup selections list

In the policy, select the Backup selections tab.
Select the Add button.
From the Pathname or directive list, select the directive. The directives that display depend on the version of Enterprise Vault that you installed.
See Naming conventions for Enterprise Vault directives.
See About Enterprise Vault directives and what data they back up.
Select the Add to list button.
You can rename any directive by clicking in the list and directly editing the line.
Select the Add button when you finish adding directives.

Naming conventions for Enterprise Vault directives

The following naming conventions apply to Enterprise Vault directives:

NetBackup does not support the use of blank spaces either before or after a component name. Directives that contain an equals sign have a variable field that you can modify with a component name, such as EV site name or EV vault store name. This component name cannot start with or end with a blank space. The Enterprise Vault agent removes these spaces from the backup selection.
Enterprise Vault supports blank spaces anywhere in the component name. The Enterprise Vault agent cannot back up an Enterprise Vault component whose name begins or ends with a blank space.
Enterprise Vault enables you to configure multiple vault store groups or vault stores with the same name. However, NetBackup does not support vault store groups or vault stores using the same name, if they share the same directory database.

Enterprise Vault 7.5 and later directive sets enable you to select one or more directives. For example, you can add the EV_DIR_DB directive and the EV_MONITORING_DB directive in a single backup policy.

Note:

With Enterprise Vault 8.0 or later, you cannot use the EV_DIR_DB directive with the EV_INDEX_LOCATION= and the EV_OPEN_PARTITION= directives.