Veritas Netbackup: Part 1- Introduction

Veritas Netbackup is generally a very solid product in my experience, but sometimes in-depth troubleshooting is necessary. It is important to first get definitions straight for semantical purposes:

• A Netbackup client is the computer/server that is backing up its files/directories/volumes/etc.
• A Netbackup media server is the destination computer that has the tape library (or equivalent) attached to it. The client's data is physically written to tape through the media server.
• A Netbackup master server is the management arm of Netbackup- it keeps track of the backups, archives, restores, policies, etc.