When you start Backup Exec for the first time, defaults are already configured. You can adjust the defaults to meet the needs of your environment. Default settings are available for various types of jobs, such as backup, restore, and test run. You also can set defaults for catalogs, media management, bar code rules, and database maintenance.
The defaults that will probably affect you the most are the backup job defaults. You can change many of these defaults after devising a media rotation strategy and creating additional media sets and drive pools. In the short term though, you can run Backup Exec and backup and restore jobs safely by using only the defaults set during installation.
See the following sections for more information about default options:
Table: Backup Exec default options