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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ in Highly Available Environments Administrator's Guide
  3. NetBackup protection against single points of failure
  4. About protecting against component failures
  5. About protecting against media server failures
Veritas NetBackup™ in Highly Available Environments Administrator's Guide

About protecting against media server failures

Although media servers can be configured with redundant network and SAN connections, the servers themselves remain single points of failure. Methods of protecting NetBackup against media server failures may vary depending on the type of media servers that you use.

Table: Type of media servers and protection method lists the different types of media servers and the protection method.

Table: Type of media servers and protection method

Type of media server

Description

Dedicated media servers

Run only the media server software and exclusively back up data from other systems.

See About protecting against dedicated media server failures.

Non-dedicated media servers

Run other applications also that require backing up. Also back up data from other systems.

See About protecting against non-dedicated media servers failures.

SAN media servers

Run other applications also that require backing up. Do not back up data from other systems.

See About protecting against SAN media server failures.

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