User Guide

10 Storage Management Services Administration Guide
Storage Management Services Administration Guide
103-000134-001
August 29, 2001
Novell Confidential
Manual 99a38 July 17, 2001
The following topics are discussed in this section:
 “SMS Components” on page 10
 “Backup Types” on page 16
 “Customizing Your Backup” on page 16
 “Keeping a Backup Logbook” on page 21
 “Preparing to Back Up” on page 22
 “Backups and eDirectory” on page 23
 “Backups and the File System” on page 27
 “Backups and Clusters” on page 29
 “Session Files” on page 37
SMS Components
 Storage Management Engine (SME) for backup and restore operations.
Novell provides the SBCON utility as a basic SME for NetWare.
See “Storage Management Engine (SME)” on page 12 for more
information.
 Storage Management Data Requester (SMDR) for passing
communication between the backup program (see “Storage Management
Data Requester” on page 13) and the TSA software (see “Target Service
Agents (TSAs)” on page 30.)
 Storage device interface is used to pass information between the SME
and the storage device.
 Device drivers are used to control the behavior of the storage devices.
 Target Service Agents (TSAs) pass requests and commands between the
SME and server or eDirectory database, and prepare the data for the SME.
TSA600.NLM must be loaded on the server where the data is to be
backed up.
See “Target Service Agents (TSAs)” on page 30 for more information.
 TSAProxy (TSADOS for DOS workstation) is used to register the
workstation with the host server. TSAProxy also identifies and keeps
track of the stations waiting to be backed up. It receives "I am here"
messages from workstations available to be backed up. The TSAProxy