Supported Storage Devices And Drivers; Storage Management Engine (Sme) - Novell NETWARE 6-DOCUMENTATION Manual

Supported Storage Devices and Drivers

Storage Management Engine (SME)

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Storage Management Services Administration Guide
SBCON supports 0.25-inch, 4mm, and 8mm storage devices. If you are using
4mm tape, use only DDS (Digital Data Storage)-certified, computer-grade
tapes.
IMPORTANT:
To ensure reliable operations, pretest all media storage devices
that are not Novell certified with the appropriate NetWare device driver and SBCON
backup and restore utility.
Use the driver files recommended by your hardware manufacturer.
The Storage Management Engine (SME) is central to the SMS architecture.
The SME communicates with the network clients to back up and restore
information.
SBCON has three modules:
User interface - Creates a job and submits to the NDS Queue.
Q Manager (QMAN) - Takes the job from the NDS Queue which is ready
for execution.
Engine - Completes the job.
Q Manager facilitates multiple job scheduling plus other features. Loading Q
Manager automatically loads the backup engine. The user interface can be
loaded after you load the Q Manager. See
information on Q Manager.
User Interface
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1 User Interface creates a job and submits to the NDS queue
2 Q Manager takes the job from the NDS Queue which is ready for execution
3 The engine
"Setting Up" on page 41
NDS Queue
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SME
Q Manager
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for