The San Client and Snapshotting are separate features, with 6.5 they are packaged with the Enterprise Client.
Here the blurb on the CDW website NetBackup introduces a new client called the Enterprise Client, which combines all of advanced capabilities in one easy package. NetBackup Enterprise Client includes NetBackup Client, Bare Metal Restore, Client Encryption SAN Media Server, SAN Client, Snapshot Client, and VMware VCB. The NetBackup client resides on the same server as the application, database, or files that are being protected and sends data to a NetBackup server for protection or receives data during a recovery. The NetBackup Bare Metal Restore functionality provides all the files and services necessary to perform system recovery, including the ability to perform diskless network booting, temporary OS installation, and disk configuration. This feature boasts a complete system recovery time of approximately 15 minutes on any platform. Data is encrypted at the source/client to provide a very high level of data security while in transit over the network and on storage media. Client Encryption is ideal for protecting smaller, yet dedicated clients and databases. It supports a variety of encryption algorithms, including 128-bit and 256-bit and legacy 40-bit and 56-bit encryption methods. The NetBackup SAN Media Server is designed for customers who would prefer to utilize their Storage Area Network (SAN) for backup operations instead of their Local Area Network (LAN). The NetBackup SAN Media Server enables LAN-free data protection with high-performance access to shared resources. The SAN client offloads backup traffic from the LAN and allows for fast backups over the SAN at approximately 150MB/sec. The SAN client can send data to a variety of Symantec new disk options and allows you to back up and restore to disk over the SAN. Data is sent to media servers via SCSI commands over the SAN rather than TCP/IP over the LAN to optimize performance. SAN Clients are supported on all major platforms. NetBackup Snapshot Client enables low-impact backup and recovery for databases and applications. By enabling users to leverage a variety of software or hardware snapshot capabilities, this client can greatly reduce the amount of data being transferred during backup and recovery as well as dramatically improve backup performance and recovery time for mission-critical databases and applications. The innovative NetBackup integration with VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) enables a single backup of VMware images to deliver granular file-level recovery or full image-level recovery, reducing both the time and cost of VMware data protection. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tanuja Korlepra Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 11:07 AM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] SAN only communication between a client and amediaserver ? Hi Ludovic, NetBackup 6.5 released a new feature called "SAN Client". It enables very fast san based communication/data transfers between clients and media servers. Thanks, Tanuja -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ldrolez Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 3:50 AM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] SAN only communication between a client and a mediaserver ? Hi ! It seems that the only way to have "san only" communications between a client and a media server is to use the "snapshot client" option. Can someone confirm this ? In that case VxFS or VxVM is a must ? TIA, Ludovic. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. Forward SPAM to |[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu