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Backup Client Operations

This chapter describes how to configure and use Backup clients, and gives suggestions on how to best customize your client configurations to suit the needs of your environment. The following topics are addressed in this chapter: *"What Is a Backup Client?" on page 85
*"New Backup Client Configuration" on page 86
*"How Backup Enforces Client Licensing" on page 114
*"Backup and Recovery with Backup Client Software" on page 116 *"Archive and Retrieve with Backup Client Software" on page 117

What Is a Backup Client?

Backup clients are machines that connect to the Backup server for backup, recover, and other operations. You can install Backup client software on the client machine or access it across the network. Backup client software is available for a variety of platforms; you can back up data from clients on a variety of platforms to Backup servers on a variety of platforms.
The basic Backup client software contains backup and recovery capability for filesystem data. You can purchase additional modules to enable archiving, HSM, and backup of a variety of databases.

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