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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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv Contacting customer support . . . . . . . xv Reporting a problem . . . . . . . . . . xvi 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 . . xx Technical changes for Version 5.3 - March 2006 . . xxii Technical changes for Version 5.3 - October 2005 xxii Technical changes for Version 5.3 - December 2004 xxiii
Chapter 1. Installing Tivoli Storage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Migrating from earlier versions . . . . . . . . 1
Upgrade path for clients and servers . . . . . 1 Considerations for migrating between processor architectures (x32, x64, IA64) . . . . . . . . 3 Additional migration information . . . . . . 4 Upgrading Open File Support (OFS) or online image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Client environment requirements . . . . . . . 5 Client components . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Hardware requirements . . . . . . . . . . 5 Software requirements . . . . . . . . . . 6 Communications methods . . . . . . . . . 7 Supported features . . . . . . . . . . . 7
NDMP support requirements (Extended Edition only) 8 Client installation media on product CD . . . . . 8 Installing the software on your workstation . . . . 9
Silent installation . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Upgrading, modifying, or reinstalling the client 12 Installation troubleshooting . . . . . . . . 13
Chapter 2. Configuring Tivoli Storage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Creating and modifying the client options file (required) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Creating a shared directory options file (optional) 17 Creating multiple options files . . . . . . . 17 Setting options in the client options file . . . . 18
Setting environment variables . . . . . . . . 19 Configuring the Web client . . . . . . . . . 20 Configuring the client scheduler . . . . . . . 21
Starting the client scheduler . . . . . . . . . 23 Configuring Tivoli Storage Manager client/server communication across a firewall . . . . . . . 23 Configuring Tivoli Storage Manager client/server communication with Secure Socket Layer . . . . 26 Configuring the journal engine service . . . . . 28 Configuring online image backup support . . . . 28 Configuring Open File Support (OFS) . . . . . 29 Registering your workstation with a server (required) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Using closed registration . . . . . . . . . 30 Using open registration . . . . . . . . . 31
Creating an include-exclude list (optional) . . . . 31 Using include-exclude options . . . . . . . 32 Controlling compression, encryption, and adaptive subfile backup processing . . . . . 39 Testing an include-exclude list with the Preview command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Processing include and exclude options . . . . 41 Processing rules when using UNC names . . . 42
Chapter 3. Getting started . . . . . . 45 Considerations for client services . . . . . . . 45
Using Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive client as a member of the Backup Operators group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Considerations before you start using a Backup Operators group account for backup, archive, restore, and retrieve operations . . . . . . . 47
Permissions required to restore files that use adaptive subfile backup . . . . . . . . . . 47 Permissions required to back up, archive, restore or retrieve files on cluster resources . . . . . . . 47 Tivoli Storage Manager client authentication . . . 47 Starting a GUI session . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Using your Tivoli Storage Manager password . . 49 Setup wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Starting a command-line session . . . . . . . 49 Using batch mode . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Using interactive mode . . . . . . . . . 50 Displaying Euro characters in command-line prompt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Using options on the DSMC command . . . . 51
Starting a Web client session . . . . . . . . . 51 Setting user privileges . . . . . . . . . . 53
Starting the client scheduler automatically . . . . 53 Changing your password . . . . . . . . . . 53 Sorting file lists using the Tivoli Storage Manager GUI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Displaying online help . . . . . . . . . . 55 Ending a session . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Online forums . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Other sources of online help . . . . . . . . . 56
Chapter 4. Backing up your data . . . 57
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Planning your backups . . . . . . . . . . 57 When to back up and when to archive files . . . . 58 Pre-backup considerations . . . . . . . . . 59
LAN-free data movement . . . . . . . . . 59 Configure memory-constrained systems to run incremental backups . . . . . . . . . . 60 Configure systems with large numbers of files to run incremental backups . . . . . . . . . 60 Performing a backup with limited bandwidth . . 61 Using an include-exclude list to control processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Maximum file size for operations . . . . . . 63 How Tivoli Storage Manager handles long user and group names . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Performing an incremental, selective, or incremental-by-date backup . . . . . . . . . 64
Supported file systems . . . . . . . . . 64 Full and partial incremental backup . . . . . 65 Incremental-by-date backup . . . . . . . . 68 Comparing full incremental, partial incremental, incremental-by-date, and journal-based backups . 68 Selective backup . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Open file support for backup operations . . . . 69 Backing up data using the GUI . . . . . . . 71 Backing up data using the command line . . . 73 Deleting backup data . . . . . . . . . . 75
Group backup: Backing up files from one or more file spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Backup with client-node proxy support . . . . . 76
Enabling multiple node operation from the GUI 77 Setting up encryption . . . . . . . . . . 78 Scheduling with client-node proxy support . . . 78
Associating a local snapshot with a server file space 79 Backing up system objects (Windows XP) . . . . 79 Backing up Windows system state . . . . . . . 80 Backing up Automated System Recovery (ASR) files (Windows XP, Windows Server 2003) . . . . . . 82 Performing an image backup . . . . . . . . 82
Before you perform an image backup . . . . . 83 Utilizing image backup to perform file system incremental backup . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Performing an image backup using the GUI . . 86 Performing an image backup using the command line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Backing up NAS file systems . . . . . . . . 87 Support for CDP Persistent Storage Manager (PSM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Backing up NAS file systems using the Web client GUI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Backing up NAS file systems using the command line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Backup and restore of NAS file servers using CIFS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Using VMware Consolidated Backup . . . . . . 92 Backing up NetApp CIFS share definitions . . . . 95 Backing up the WebSphere Application Server . . . 95 Displaying backup processing statu
