Local File System (for Oracle or DB2 servers on the DS-Client computer). | The DS-Client will dump the database into the specified path on the local file system (on the DS-Client computer). The DS-Client transmits the files to DS-System. |
NFS (for remote Oracle or DB2 Server) | DS-Client will read the database dump files from the database server through the NFS transmission protocol, then sends them to DS-System. |
UNIX-SSH (for remote Oracle or DB2 Server) | DS-Client will read the database dump files from the database server through the UNIX-SSH transmission protocol, then send them to DS-System. |
DS-PIPE (Oracle only) | DS-PIPE is an alternative to the database dump for Oracle database server backups. This option does not consume any additional disk space. During backups, the DS-Client reads from the pipe on the source database. This method is useful if your database is too big to be dumped to a file on either the database server or the DS-Client buffer. |