in our nb6mp3 linux master/media environment i have one win2k3 client
that has 6TB of data that i need to backup in a certain amount of time.
is there still a "SAN Media server" in netbackup 6.0?  i haven't found
too much information on the symantec/veritas web site for 6.0.   

would i install the nt media server software on the client, or install
something under the advanced client software?  can we test this without
a temporary license to see if it would meet our needs?  

as a test, we put this client on a 10GB network with the media servers
and may have gotten an acceptable speed, but want to compare it with
direct attached fibre drives.

some google links had information such as:

Symantec NetBackup SAN Media server is used to locally backup large
apps. 
Symantec NetBackup SAN Media server may share a tape library with the
...

Read product details on Veritas NetBackup for Windows SAN Media Server
5.0 Full Version for PC, Unix, Sun.

A SAN media server is limited to only be able to backup itself up. It
cannot backup other NetBackup clients. If you want to backup additional
Netbackup...
 
thanks,
jerald

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