HP D2D D2D NAS Integration with NetBackup (EH985-90936, March 2011) - Page 5

Data Movers, Clients, The NetBackup environment

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• Data Movers - send data to external disk-like devices (Open Storage Appliances). • Clients - are servers/workstations which have the NetBackup client software loaded and will back up over the network to their designated media server. See the Glossary for more terminology. Figure 1 shows how the NetBackup components are interconnected. NetBackup is extremely scalable and can support a large, complex backup solution. Symantec provide guides on performance which must be used in planning a solution. NetBackup Master and Media server software is available for Windows, Linux, HP-UX and Sun Solaris platforms. Figure 1 The NetBackup environment NetBackup provides a Windows-based administration console shown in Figure 2. (There is also a scriptable command line interface). Prior to NetBackup(NBU) 7 some functions were only available as command line instructions. There is also a NetBackup backup/recovery client interface which can be used by clients to run backups and recover files. Archive functions are usually when the original file is deleted. There are also methods of copying backups to alternative storage locations for added resilience. The NetBackup environment 5

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Data Movers
– send data to external disk-like devices (Open Storage Appliances).
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Clients
– are servers/workstations which have the NetBackup client software loaded and will
back up over the network to their designated media server. See the Glossary for more
terminology.
Figure 1 shows how the NetBackup components are interconnected. NetBackup is extremely
scalable and can support a large, complex backup solution. Symantec provide guides on
performance which must be used in planning a solution. NetBackup Master and Media server
software is available for Windows, Linux, HP-UX and Sun Solaris platforms.
Figure 1 The NetBackup environment
NetBackup provides a Windows-based administration console shown in Figure 2. (There is also
a scriptable command line interface). Prior to NetBackup(NBU) 7 some functions were only available
as command line instructions. There is also a NetBackup backup/recovery client interface which
can be used by clients to run backups and recover files. Archive functions are usually when the
original file is deleted. There are also methods of copying backups to alternative storage locations
for added resilience.
The NetBackup environment
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