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Term
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Definition
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Application Program Interface (API)
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A language and message format used by an
application program to communicate with the operating system or
some other control program such as a database management system
(DBMS) or communications protocol.
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Microsoft Windows, Windows
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Terms used as nouns to describe a line of
operating systems developed by Microsoft, Inc.
A term used as an adjective to describe a
specific product or noun. Some examples are Windows 95,
Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows
servers, Windows clients, Windows platforms, Windows hosts, and
Windows GUI.
Where a specific Windows product is
identified, then only that particular product is valid with regards
to the instance in which it is being used.
For more information on the Windows
operating systems that NetBackup supports, refer to the support Web
site at http://www.entsupport.symantec.com.
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Multi-streaming
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The sending of multiple streams of data from
the NetWare Client to the NetBackup server.
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NonTarget
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One of two NetWare Client methods that allow
user-directed backups and restores of a NetWare server. This method
uses the NetBackup for NetWare NonTarget Browser, which is
installed on and run from a Windows computer.
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Storage Management Data Requestor
(SMDR)
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The communication module in the SMS
architecture, the SMDR provides transparent access to SMS services
in an intranet by exposing a set of SMS APIs which can be used to
access local or remote SMS services.
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Storage Management Services (SMS)
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Software, which allows data to be stored and
retrieved on NetWare servers independent of the file system the
data is maintained in (DOS, OS/2, Mac, etc.).
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Target
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One of two NetWare Client methods that allow
user-directed backups and restores of a NetWare server. This method
uses a character-based menu-driven interface that runs on the
NetWare file server console.
This term is also used to mean the
collection of data being backed up.
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Windows clients
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A term that defines the Windows client
platforms that NetBackup supports. Those platforms are Windows 95,
98, Me, NT, 2000, XP (for 32- and 64-bit versions), and
LE.
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Windows servers
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A term that defines the Windows server
platforms that NetBackup supports. Those platforms are Windows NT,
Windows 2000, and Windows 2003 Servers.
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