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SMS Components

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Storage Management Services Administration Guide
The following topics are discussed in this section:
"SMS Components" on page 10
"Backup Types" on page 16
"Customizing Your Backup" on page 16
"Keeping a Backup Logbook" on page 21
"Preparing to Back Up" on page 22
"Backups and eDirectory" on page 23
"Backups and the File System" on page 27
"Backups and Clusters" on page 29
"Session Files" on page 37
Storage Management Engine (SME) for backup and restore operations.
Novell provides the SBCON utility as a basic SME for NetWare.
See "Storage Management Engine (SME)" on page 12
information.
Storage Management Data Requester (SMDR) for passing
communication between the backup program (see
Data Requester" on page
Agents (TSAs)" on page
Storage device interface is used to pass information between the SME
and the storage
Device drivers are used to control the behavior of the storage devices.
Target Service Agents (TSAs) pass requests and commands between the
SME and server or eDirectory database, and prepare the data for the SME.
TSA600.NLM must be loaded on the server where the data is to be
backed up.
See "Target Service Agents (TSAs)" on page 30
TSAProxy (TSADOS for DOS workstation) is used to register the
workstation with the
track of the stations waiting to be backed up. It receives "I am here"
messages from workstations available to be backed up. The TSAProxy
13) and the TSA software (see
30.)
device.
host server. TSAProxy also identifies and keeps
for more
"Storage Management
"Target Service
for more information.