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CHAPTER

Introduction

This chapter contains information about the features provided by your Backup Backup software and a suggested roadmap to follow to configure and learn how to use Backup.
This chapter consists of the following sections:
*"What Is Backup?" on page 1
*"Backup Product Family" on page 4
*"Backup Software License Modes" on page 7
*"Roadmap of Backup Configuration Tasks" on page 8

What Is Backup?

It is important to back up computer systems to protect them from the loss of valuable data. In a networked environment, where users depend on shared data and the amount of data grows rapidly as systems are added to the network, the need to manage data becomes crucial.
Solstice Backup is a network storage management solution that protects and helps manage data across an entire network of computers. Backup saves valuable administrator time by speeding up and simplifying daily storage management operations. A graphical user interface (GUI) guides you through administering and configuring your network for storage management. As Backup manages your data, it creates a database of saved data, making it easy to locate data for recovery. Furthermore, as the network and amount of data grow, Backup provides the capacity and performance to handle the load.

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