SMS provides the nbackup backup application on the OES server. It includes the following functions:
Provides a basic backup solution that is not designed to provide advanced session management and other features available with third-party backup applications.
Can be used to create consistent backups, but are recommended for use as technology demonstrators, especially in backup performance.
Used to troubleshoot problems
Several backup application vendors provide an enterprise backup solution using SMS.
The nbackup utility can be run only as an eDirectory user. Active Directory users cannot run this utility.
For information, see the nbackup(1) man page.