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Contents
Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
About this book . . . . . . . . . . . xi Who should read this manual . . . . . . . . xi IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Web site . . . . . xii Conventions used in this book . . . . . . . . xii Reading syntax diagrams . . . . . . . . . . xii Related publications . . . . . . . . . . . xiv
Downloading or ordering publications . . . . xv Accessibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi Contacting customer support . . . . . . . xvi Reporting a problem . . . . . . . . . . xvii Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
Summary of changes for Tivoli Storage Manager . . . . . . . . . . xix Technical changes for Version 5.5 - November 2007 xix Technical changes for Version 5.4 - January 2007 . . xxi Technical changes for Version 5.3 - March 2006 xxiii Technical changes for Version 5.3 - October 2005 xxiii Technical changes for Version 5.3 - December 2004 xxv
Chapter 1. Installing Tivoli Storage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Migrating from earlier versions . . . . . . . . 1
Upgrade path for clients and servers . . . . . 1 Additional migration information . . . . . . 2
Client environment requirements . . . . . . . 3 AIX client environment . . . . . . . . . . 3 HP-UX Itanium 2 client environment . . . . . 5 HP-UX PA-RISC client environment . . . . . 6 Linux Itanium 2 client environment . . . . . . 7 Linux on POWER client environment . . . . . 8 Linux x86/x86_64 client environment . . . . . 9 Linux for zSeries client environment . . . . . 10 Solaris client environment . . . . . . . . 12 z/OS UNIX System Services client environment 13
NDMP support requirements (Extended Edition only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Client installation media on product CDs . . . . 14 Installing the backup-archive client . . . . . . 15
Installing the AIX client . . . . . . . . . 16 Uninstalling the AIX client . . . . . . . . 20 Installing the HP-UX Itanium 2 client . . . . . 21 Uninstalling the HP-UX Itanium 2 client . . . . 24 Installing the HP-UX PA-RISC client . . . . . 25 Uninstalling the HP-UX PA-RISC client . . . . 28 Installing the Linux Itanium 2 client . . . . . 29 Uninstalling the Linux Itanium 2 client . . . . 30 Installing the Linux on POWER client . . . . 31 Uninstalling the Linux on POWER client . . . 33 Installing the Linux x86/x86_64 client . . . . 34 Uninstalling the Linux x86/x86_64 client . . . 36 Installing the Linux for zSeries client . . . . . 37
Uninstalling the Linux for zSeries client . . . . 39 Installing the Solaris clients . . . . . . . . 40 Uninstalling the Solaris clients . . . . . . . 45
Chapter 2. Configuring Tivoli Storage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Root and authorized user tasks . . . . . . . . 47 Creating and modifying the client system options file (required root user or authorized user task) . . 49
Creating a default client user options file (optional root user or authorized user task) . . . 50 Setting options in an options file . . . . . . 51
Setting environment variables . . . . . . . . 52 Setting language environment variables . . . . 52 Setting processing environment variables . . . 54 Setting Bourne and Korn shell variables . . . . 55 Setting C shell variables . . . . . . . . . 55 Setting API environment variables . . . . . . 56
Configuring the Web client . . . . . . . . . 56 Configuring the client scheduler . . . . . . . 57 Starting the client scheduler . . . . . . . . . 58 Configuring Tivoli Storage Manager client/server communication across a firewall . . . . . . . 59 Configuring Tivoli Storage Manager client/server communication with Secure Socket Layer . . . . 62 Configuring the journal daemon . . . . . . . 63 AIX configuration considerations prior to performing snapshot-based file backups and archives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Registering your workstation with a server (required root user or authorized user task) . . . 64
Using closed registration . . . . . . . . . 64 Using open registration . . . . . . . . . 64
Associating your client node with a host system (optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Creating an include-exclude list (optional root user or authorized user task) . . . . . . . . . . 66
Using include-exclude options . . . . . . . 67 Controlling symbolic link processing . . . . . 71 Controlling compression and encryption processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Testing an include-exclude list with the Preview command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Processing include and exclude options . . . . 73
Chapter 3. Getting started . . . . . . 77 Tivoli Storage Manager client authentication . . . 77 Starting a GUI session . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Using your Tivoli Storage Manager password . . 78 Setup wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Starting a command-line session . . . . . . . 78 Using batch mode . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Using interactive mode . . . . . . . . . 79
Starting: Additional considerations . . . . . . 80 Starting a Web client session . . . . . . . . . 80
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Setting user privileges . . . . . . . . . . 82 Starting the client scheduler automatically . . . . 82 Changing your password . . . . . . . . . . 82 Sorting file lists using the Tivoli Storage Manager Java GUI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Displaying online help . . . . . . . . . . 84 Ending a session . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Online forums . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Other sources of online help . . . . . . . . . 85
Chapter 4. Backing up your data . . . 87 Planning your backups . . . . . . . . . . 87 When to back up and when to archive files . . . . 88 Pre-backup considerations . . . . . . . . . 89
LAN-free data movement . . . . . . . . . 89 Configure memory-constrained systems to run incremental backups . . . . . . . . . . 90 Configure systems with large numbers of files to run incremental backups . . . . . . . . . 90 Using an include-exclude options list to control processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Encrypting data during backup or archive operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 File system and ACL support . . . . . . . 92 Maximum file size for operations . . . . . . 94 How Tivoli Storage Manager handles long user and group names . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Performing an incremental, selective, or incremental-by-date backup . . . . . . . . . 95
Full and partial incremental backup . . . . . 95 Incremental-by-date backup . . . . . . . . 98 Comparing full incremental, partial incremental, incremental-by-date, and journal-based backups . 99 Selective backup . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Solaris global zone and local zones backup . . 100 Saving access permissions . . . . . . . . 100 Setting a virtual mount point . . . . . . . 100 Backing up data using the Java GUI . . . . . 100 Backing up data using the command line . . . 101 Deleting backup data . . . . . . . . . . 103 Deleting file spaces . . . . . . . . . . 104
Group backup: Backing up files from one or more file spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Backup with client-node proxy support . . . . . 105
Enabling multiple node operation from the GUI 106 Setting up encryption . . . . . . . . . 106 Scheduling with client-node proxy support . . 107
Associating a local snapshot with a server file space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Performing an image backup . . . . . . . . 110
Before you perform an image backup . . . . 111 Utilizing image backup to perform file system incremental backup . . . . . . . . . . 114 Performing an i
