ADSM provides a standard policy. If this standard policy meets the needs of your clients, you can begin using ADSM immediately. The standard policy consists of a standard policy domain, policy set, management class, backup copy group, and archive copy group. Each of these parts is named STANDARD.
When you register a client node, the default is to assign the node to the STANDARD policy domain. If users register their own workstations during open registration, they are also assigned to the STANDARD policy domain.
Enabling Point-in-Time Restore for Clients: To enable clients to restore backed-up files to a specific point in time, you must set up backup copy groups differently from the STANDARD. See "Defining and Updating a Backup Copy Group" for details on the requirements for the Versions Data Exists, Versions Data Deleted, and Retain Extra Versions parameters. See also "Special Considerations: Enabling Point-in-Time Restore for Clients" for more information.
The attributes of the default ADSM policy parts are as follows:
When an archived file is no longer associated with an archive copy group, it remains in server storage for 365 days (archive retention grace period).
An incremental backup is performed only if the file has changed since the last backup.
Files cannot be backed up while they are being modified.
Up to two backup versions of a file on the client's system are retained in server storage. The most recent backup version is retained for as long as the original file is on the client file system. All other versions are retained for up to 30 days after they become inactive.
One backup version of a file that has been deleted from the client's system is retained in server storage for 60 days.
Files cannot be archived while they are being modified.
An archive copy is kept for up to 365 days.