Glossary
Glossary
notification | A message generated and sent to the NetWorker |
| administrator about important NetWorker events. |
online indexes | The databases located on the NetWorker server that |
| contain all the information pertaining to the client |
| backups (client file index) and backup volumes (media |
| database). |
operator | The person who monitors the server status, loads |
| backup volumes into the server devices, and |
| otherwise executes the |
override | A NetWorker feature that allows you to configure a |
| different backup level for a specific date listed in a |
| Schedule resource. |
package | The term used by |
| Also known as an agent (Sun), logical server (HP |
| TruCluster), and virtual server (Microsoft). |
packet filtering | A method of firewall protection that looks at each |
| packet entering or leaving the network and accepts or |
| rejects it based on |
parallelism | A NetWorker feature that enables the NetWorker |
| server to either back up save sets from several clients |
| or many save sets from one client at the same time. |
| Parallelism is also available during recovers. |
pathname | A set of instructions to the operating system for |
| accessing a file. An absolute pathname tells how to find |
| a file beginning at the root directory and working |
| down the directory tree. A relative pathname tells how |
| to find the file starting where you are now. |
physical cluster | A NetWorker client that is bound to a physical |
client | machine in the cluster and can represent its own |
| resources (private or local). It can also be called the |
| physical client. |
physical host | Any one of the nodes (or machines) that forms the |
| cluster. |
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