difference bet netbackup master server and media server
Kindly help me in understanding What is difference bet netbackup master server and media server
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- The Master Server is the "brains" for all data protection activities, from scheduling andtracking client backups to managing tape media and more.
Media Server - Manages backups and restores of Client and the Media Server's local data todirect attached or SAN-attached storage (tape/disk).
SAN Media Server - Provides all the functionality of a Media Server without the ability tobackup and restore data from remote clients. The SAN Media Server is designed for
Client - Any system that requires protection. A NetBackup Client sends and receives dataacross the local area network (LAN) to and from a NetBackup Master/Media Server
Moving the thread to Netbackup forums...- The master is the one that contains your Netbackup Database.
So it needs lots of disk space and some power.
It has the database that runs the schedules and keeps track of tape drives and other backup devices.
It also keeps track of media servers. ( If it is a unix master - it can send all unix clients new versions of the software)
A media server (which a master can also be a media server)
Does backups. It has tape drives or backup disk devices, and talks to clients, gets the data from them and put the info onto the backup device. Does not need as much disk space on the actual server for the netbackup software as a master. But does need a good network connection and some power. It also sends to the master server the info on the files that it is backing up so the master can add that info to the database.
- I wanted to respond (would have been my first one) and I see that the two previous post are perfect. nicely done fellows
- I would hope "vasanth" had worked this out by now - O/P December 30th 2007!!
Well at least the post will lock down now in 27 weeks or so having had a response....
