8.2 About Upgrading Storage Management Services (SMS)

The Novell Storage Management Services™ (SMS) backup infrastructure provides backup applications with the framework to develop a complete backup and restore solution.

SMS helps back up file systems (such as NSS) or application data, such as data from GroupWise® on NetWare and SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), to removable tape media or other media for off-site storage. It provides a single consistent interface for all file systems and applications across NetWare and SLES.

The upgrade path for SMS is to install it on the OES 2 server.