Backup can direct and conduct administration services for any client or server on the network that has the Backup software installed and is recognized by the Backup server. The Backup interface offers you only the options that are relevant to a particular Backup client, so you do not need to know the configuration of individual machines before you start a monitoring session.

Performance

Backup has many standard and optional performance features: *Parallelism, which allows several savestreamsto flow to the server or storage node
at the same time
*Multiplexing, which lets more than one savestream write to the same device at
the same time
*Client parallelism, which lets the client send more than one savestream at a time *Session management, which enables you to control the number of savestreams
per device to maximize the performance of each device
*Backup to file devices and optional subsequent staging to nearline or offline
volumes
*Optional supported modules:
-Autochanger Software Module
-Silo Software Module
-Archive Module
-Solstice Database Modules for backing up several types of databases
-Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
-HSM

Ease of Use

Backup provides tools to make protection of critical data easy to manage. With Backup, you can:
*Use either the Backup GUI or the command line to manage Backup. *Administer and configure Backup functions from any machine on the network. *Grant permission to provide the capability for recovery of one client's data to
another client machine of the same operating system.
*Obtain immediate answers to questions by accessing online help and man pages. *Take advantage of the automatic media management feature to allow Backup to
label and mount volumes as needed for backups.

Chapter 1

Introduction

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