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NetBackup™ Backup Planning and Performance Tuning Guide

Best practices: NetBackup SAN Client

The NetBackup SAN Client feature is designed for a computer that has the following characteristics:

  • Contains critical data that requires high bandwidth for backups

  • Is not a candidate for converting to a media server

  • Has limited network bandwidth to use for backups.

A SAN Client performs a fast backup over a Fibre Channel SAN to a media server. Media servers that have been enabled for SAN Client backups are called Fibre Transport media servers.

Note:

The FlashBackup option should not be used with SAN Clients. Restores of FlashBackup backups use the LAN path rather than the SAN path from media server to the client. The LAN may not be fast enough to handle a full volume (raw partition) restore of a FlashBackup backup.

More information is available in the NetBackup SAN Client and Fibre Transport Guide.

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