NetBackup 4.5 Troubleshooting Guide for Windows - Symantec

Backups - Macintosh Clients
NetBackup 4.5 Troubleshooting Guide for Windows
Backup and Restore Functional Description
NetBackup supports the same types of operations on Macintosh clients as it does for
UNIX clients. The next figure shows the client processes involved in backing up a
Macintosh. The server processes are the same as described for UNIX.
Server Client
For details on the server processes,
see Backups and Archives - UNIX
Clients earlier in this chapter.
bptm
bprd
bpbrm
Request
File Information
Backup Image
NetBackup
User Interface
NetBackupBPBACKUP
NetBackupListen
NetBackupBPCD
Client
Disk
◆ NetBackupBPBACKUP is a faceless background application that NetBackup launches
in order to start a user-directed backup.
◆ The application extension, NetBackupListen, starts executing when the Macintosh
is booted and listens on the BPCD port number for backup requests from a NetBackup
server. When NetBackupListen gets a request, it launches the faceless background
application NetBackupBPCD.
◆ NetBackupBPCD handles the request in the same way as the UNIX bpcd.
NetBackupBPCD also includes bpbkar functionality.
The archive that the Macintosh client generates is essentially the same as the archive from
a UNIX client. One difference is that the Macintosh file names may be slightly different in
the NetBackup archive (see the NetBackup User’s Guide - Macintosh for an explanation of the
differences).
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