Discovery Policies Overview
The Discovery module, specific to Veritas NetBackup, uses Discovery policies to illuminate risk and exposure within the corporate IT backup and recovery environment. The Discovery module is a separately licensed feature. See
About Discovery Types and
Activate a Discovery License.
Discovery policies provide answers to the following questions:
• Where is my data protected? (for example, disk-to-disk, disk-to-tape, or disk-to-disk-to-tape)
• What is the extent and coverage of my data protection?
• Are all my clients and applications protected?
• Is every data set on every client and every application protected?
Discovery finds hosts on a corporate network and compares those hosts with the policies of the underlying backup and recovery software. Discovery performs the following steps:
1. Identifies orphan clients that are not being protected.
2. Probes and determines the file systems or drives of the hosts.
3. Compares and contrasts the file systems to the equivalent policies within the underlying backup and recovery software.
Use Discovery policies if:
• Your IT infrastructure, applications, and servers are rapidly changing.
• Your backup solution cannot detect your backup servers and cannot provide information about successful or unsuccessful backups.