
Offhost Backup Overview
24 NetBackup ServerFree Agent System Administrator’s Guide
Third-Party Copy Device
In this offhost backup method, a third-party copy device performs the I/O processing of
the backup (data movement).
Choose this option if processing time on the NetBackup client is critical and off-loading
backup processing to a third-party copy device may save time.
Figure “Third-Party Copy” shows the basic components used in the Third-Party Copy
Device method. A third-party copy device (not a component of NetBackup) handles the
backup data movement.
Third-Party Copy
Disks of client
data on SAN
NetBackup
master server
Fibre Channel/SAN
LAN / WAN
Robot on
SAN
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2
5
3
NetBackup
media server
NetBackup
client
1. On LAN, client backup is initiated by master server, which tells the client to map the
frozen image data.
2. On LAN, client sends the mapping information to the media server.
3. Media server sends third-party copy commands to the third-party copy device over the SAN.
4. Third-party copy device reads the client data from either SAN-attached or SCSI-attached disk.
5. Third-party copy device writes data to SAN-attached or SCSI-attached storage.
Third-party
copy device
SCSI
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