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:
- minimizes load on your communications network.
- increases efficiency for your fileserver by off-loading
the processing of data to the client machine.
- detailed file and directory information about the remote client
in the SCO ARCserve/Open Browser.
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.
Next topic:
Client Agent for Windows NT installation
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