1.3 Backup Applications

SMS provides the nbackup backup application on the OES 11 server. It includes the following functions:

  • Provides a basic backup solution that is not designed to provide advanced session management and other features available with third-party backup applications.

  • Can be used to create consistent backups, but are recommended for use as technology demonstrators, especially in backup performance.

  • Used to troubleshoot problems

Several backup application vendors provide an enterprise backup solution using SMS.

For information, see the nbackup(1) man page.