1.0 What Is SBCON

NetWare® Storage Management Services™ (SMS) is a collection of software programs that provides backup, restore, and data migration services. These services are performed by a collection of components that are independent of operating systems and hardware.

The Storage Management Engine (SME) is central to the SMS architecture. The engine communicates with the network clients to back up and restore information. Novell provides the SBCON utility as a basic backup engine for NetWare and SLES.