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Veritas NetBackup software is a heterogeneous backup and recovery suite for large-scale enterprises. NetBackup provides backup, recovery, archive, retrieval, and disaster recovery for a wide range of enterprise applications, hypervisors, and multi-cloud environments. The product backs up data to disk, tape, and public clouds.
Primary Server: Manages backups, archives, and restores. The Primary Server contains the NetBackup catalog which includes the internal databases that contain information about NetBackup configuration and backups.
Media Server: Installed either on the primary server machine or on one or more separate machines. Provisions the storage devices and manages the backup target such as a disk storage unit or virtual tape drive.
Client: Installed on the client machine to be backed up. Sends backup data and receives data on restore operations.