A backup job copies data to be backed up from its working location, and sends it to a media server. The media server writes the data to the backup media.
In a restore job, the media server extracts the data to be restored from storage device and sends it to the backup server, which writes it to a live location.
There are two types of media server in Arkeia Network Backup:
In a single node Arkeia installation, the backup server is also the media server.