It also facilitates consistent policy management along with the ability to monitor NetBackup storage domains anywhere in the enterprise. A NetBackup storage domain consists of one NetBackup Master Server and one or more NetBackup Media Servers. In campus situations and where operations may be dispersed in multiple geographic locations, there may be more than one storage domain. One instance of Global Data Manager that controls multiple storage domains is called an enterprise domain. Both the installation and implementation of NetBackup DataCenter are easy processes, greatly simplified through the use of intuitive wizards that walk users through each step in the process.
Administrators can define backup schedules with the graphical scheduling interface.
The scheduler within NetBackup gives the flexibility to define full and incremental backups. Flexible scheduling options are part of the scheduler, including the ability to not only run backups on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis, but also by hour. A backup window can be defined to ensure that backups are not run at other than certain times. Lastly, administrators can give backup policies descriptive, multi-word names for tracking and reporting. NetBackup DataCenter has several backup options that redefine traditional backup and restore.