About the Client Agent for Windows NT

This chapter explains the basic concepts for the Windows NT® Client Agent, including:



What is a Client Agent?

The Client Agent for Windows NT is a ``go-between'' that allows SCO® ARCserve®/Open from Cheyenne® to efficiently back up and restore Windows NT machines. The Client Agent helps SCO ARCserve/Open retrieve and send data to and from a Windows NT machine.

Using SCO ARCserve/Open with the Windows NT Client Agent provides the following benefits:



What is Push technology?

The Client Agent for Windows NT uses Push technology to help perform backup, restore, and compare jobs. All the filtering of files and directories is done on the client machine prior to ``pushing'' the data to the host server (the SCO system running SCO ARCserve/Open) for processing. Only specified directories or files are sent to the SCO ARCserve/Open host.

Push technology minimizes the transfer of data to the SCO ARCserve/Open host, thereby reducing the load on your communications network. The host server can operate more efficiently because it does not have to filter the data for the backup job.


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