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IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for UNIX: Backup-Archive Clients Installation and User's Guide


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About this book

  • Who should read this manual
  • IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Web site
  • Conventions used in this book
  • Reading syntax diagrams
  • Related publications
  • Downloading or ordering publications
  • Contacting customer support
  • Reporting a problem
  • Internet
  • Summary of changes for Tivoli Storage Manager

  • |Technical changes for version 5.2.2 - December 2003
  • Technical changes for version 5.2 - April 2003
  • Technical changes for version 5.1.5 - September 2002
  • Technical changes for version 5.1 - April 2002
  • Chapter 1. Installing Tivoli Storage Manager

  • Migrating from earlier versions
  • Upgrade path for clients and servers
  • NDMP support requirements (Extended Edition only)
  • Additional migration information
  • Client environment requirements
  • AIX client environment
  • HP-UX client environment
  • Linux on Intel x86 client environment
  • Linux on Intel Itanium client environment
  • Linux for pSeries and Linux for iSeries client environments
  • Linux for IBM eServer zSeries and S/390 client environments
  • OS/390 and z/OS UNIX System Services client environment
  • Solaris client environment
  • Client installation media on product CD-ROMs
  • Online startup information
  • Installing the backup-archive client
  • Installing the AIX client
  • Installing the HP-UX clients
  • Installing the Linux86 client
  • |Installing the Linux on Intel Itanium client
  • Installing the Linux390 client
  • Installing the Linux pSeries and Linux iSeries clients
  • Installing the Solaris clients
  • Chapter 2. Configuring Tivoli Storage Manager

  • Root and authorized user tasks
  • Creating and modifying the client system options file (required root user or authorized user task)
  • Creating a default client user options file (optional root user or authorized user task)
  • Setting options in an options file
  • Setting environment variables
  • Setting language environment variables
  • Setting font defaults
  • Setting processing environment variables
  • Setting Bourne and Korn shell variables
  • Setting C shell variables
  • Setting API environment variables
  • Configuring the Web client
  • Configuring the client scheduler
  • Configuring Tivoli Storage Manager client/server communication across a firewall
  • Registering your workstation with a server (required root user or authorized user task)
  • Using closed registration
  • Using open registration
  • Associating your client node with a host system (optional)
  • Creating an include-exclude list (optional root user or authorized user task)
  • Using include-exclude options
  • Processing include and exclude options
  • Chapter 3. Getting started

  • Tivoli Storage Manager client authentication
  • Starting a GUI session
  • Using your Tivoli Storage Manager password
  • Setup Wizard
  • Starting a command line session
  • Using batch mode
  • Using interactive mode
  • Starting: Additional considerations
  • Starting a Web client session
  • Setting user privileges
  • Starting the client scheduler automatically
  • Changing your password
  • Sorting file lists using the Tivoli Storage Manager GUI
  • Displaying online help
  • Ending a session
  • Online forum
  • Other sources of online help
  • Chapter 4. Backing up your data

  • Planning your backups
  • Do you want to back up or archive files?
  • Pre-backup considerations
  • LAN-free data movement
  • Using an include-exclude options list to control processing
  • Encrypting data during backup or archive operation
  • File system and ACL support
  • Maximum file size for operations
  • Performing an incremental, selective, or incremental-by-date backup
  • Full and partial incremental backup
  • Incremental-by-date backup
  • Comparing full incremental, partial incremental, and incremental-by-date backups
  • Selective backup
  • Saving access permissions
  • Setting a virtual mount point
  • Backing up data using the GUI
  • Backing up data using the command line
  • Group backup: Backing up files from one or more file spaces
  • Associating a local snapshot with a server file space
  • Performing an image backup
  • Before you perform an image backup
  • Utilizing image backup to perform file system incremental backup
  • Performing an image backup using the GUI
  • Performing an image backup using the command line
  • Backing up NAS file systems
  • Backing up NAS file systems using the Web client GUI
  • Backing up NAS file systems using the command line
  • Backing up the WebSphere Application Server (WAS)
  • Backing up WAS data using the Web client
  • Backing up WAS data using the command line
  • Displaying backup processing status
  • Backup: Additional considerations
  • Understanding how files are stored
  • How special file systems are handled
  • Understanding how files are managed
  • Understanding how symbolic links are handled
  • Understanding how hard links are handled
  • Understanding how NFS hard and soft mounts are handled
  • Backing up opened files
  • Using wildcard characters
  • Chapter 5. Restoring your data

  • Do you want to restore an active or inactive backup?
  • Restoring data using the GUI
  • Restoring data using the command line
  • Performing large restore operations
  • No query restore
  • Performing point-in-time restores
  • Restoring an image
  • Peforming an image restore using the GUI
  • Performing an image restore using the command line
  • Restoring data from a backup set
  • Restoring an entire or partial backup set
  • Restoring backup sets using the GUI
  • Restoring backup sets using the command line client
  • Restoring NAS file systems
  • Restoring NAS file systems using the Web client
  • Restoring NAS files and directories using the Web client
  • Restoring NAS file systems using the command line
  • Restoring the WebSphere Application Server (WAS)
  • Restore: Additional considerations
  • Authorizing another user to restore or retrieve your files
  • Restoring or retrieving files from another client node
  • Restore or retrieve files to another workstation
  • Restoring a disk in case of disk loss
  • Deleting file spaces
  • Chapter 6. Archiving and retrieving your data

  • Archiving files
  • Estimating backup processing time
  • Archiving data using the GUI
  • Archiving data using the command line
  • Deleting archived files
  • Archive: Advanced considerations
  • Retrieving archives
  • Retrieving data using the GUI
  • Retrieving data using the command line
  • Understanding how your archives are managed
  • Chapter 7. Automating tasks

  • Specifying scheduling options
  • Configuring the client scheduler
  • Starting the client scheduler
  • Enabling firewall support
  • Return codes from the command line interface
  • Displaying information about scheduled work
  • Displaying information about completed work
  • Scheduling options for commands
  • Enabling or disabling scheduled commands
  • Chapter 8. Understanding storage management policies

  • Using policy domains and policy sets
  • Using management classes and copy groups
  • Displaying information about management classes and copy groups
  • Copy group name
  • Copy type
  • Copy frequency
  • Versions data exists
  • Versions data deleted
  • Retain extra versions
  • Retain only version
  • Copy serialization
  • Copy mode
  • Copy destination
  • Retain versions
  • Selecting a management class for files
  • Assigning a management class to files
  • Overriding the management class for archived files
  • Selecting a management class for directories
  • Binding and rebinding management classes to files
  • Rebinding backup versions of files
  • Using a retention grace period
  • Chapter 9. Using processing options

  • Overview of processing options
  • Communication options
  • TCP/IP options
  • Shared Memory options
  • Server and Node options
  • Server options
  • Node options
  • Backup and archive processing options
  • Restore and retrieve processing options
  • Scheduling options
  • Format options
  • Command processing options
  • Authorization options
  • Error processing options
  • Transaction processing options
  • Web client options
  • Diagnostics options
  • Using options with commands
  • Entering options with a command
  • Initial command line only options
  • Client options reference
  • Archmc
  • Archsymlinkasfile
  • Automount
  • Changingretries
  • Class
  • Clusternode
  • |Collocatebyfilespec
  • Commmethod
  • Commrestartduration
  • Commrestartinterval
  • Compressalways
  • Compression
  • Console
  • Dateformat
  • Defaultserver
  • Deletefiles
  • Description
  • Detail
  • Dirmc
  • Dirsonly
  • Domain
  • Domain.image
  • Domain.nas
  • Editor
  • Enablelanfree
  • Encryptkey
  • Errorlogname
  • Errorlogretention
  • Exclude options
  • Filelist
  • Filename
  • Filesonly
  • Followsymbolic
  • Fromdate
  • Fromnode
  • Fromowner
  • Fromtime
  • Groupname
  • Groups
  • Guitreeviewafterbackup
  • Httpport
  • Ifnewer
  • Imagetofile
  • Imagetype
  • Inactive
  • Inclexcl
  • Include options
  • Incrbydate
  • Incremental
  • Lanfreecommmethod
  • Lanfreeshmport
  • Lanfreetcpport
  • Largecommbuffers
  • Latest
  • Localbackupset
  • Location
  • Makesparsefile
  • Mailprog
  • Managedservices
  • Maxcmdretries
  • Memoryefficientbackup
  • Mode
  • Monitor
  • Nasnodename
  • Nfstimeout
  • Nodename
  • Noprompt
  • Numberformat
  • Optfile
  • Password
  • Passwordaccess
  • Passworddir
  • Pick
  • Pitdate
  • Pittime
  • Postschedulecmd/Postnschedulecmd
  • Preschedulecmd/Prenschedulecmd
  • Preservelastaccessdate
  • Preservepath
  • Queryschedperiod
  • Quiet
  • |Removeoperandlimit
  • Replace
  • Resourceutilization
  • Retryperiod
  • Revokeremoteaccess
  • Schedcmddisabled
  • Schedlogname
  • Schedlogretention
  • Schedmode
  • Scrolllines
  • Scrollprompt
  • Servername
  • Sessioninitiation
  • Shmport
  • Showmembers
  • Snapshotcachesize
  • Snapshotroot
  • Subdir
  • Tapeprompt
  • Tcpadminport
  • Tcpbuffsize
  • Tcpclientaddress
  • Tcpclientport
  • Tcpnodelay
  • Tcpport
  • Tcpserveraddress
  • Tcpwindowsize
  • Timeformat
  • Toc
  • Todate
  • Totime
  • Txnbytelimit
  • Type
  • Users
  • V2archive
  • Verbose
  • Verifyimage
  • Virtualfsname
  • Virtualmountpoint
  • Virtualnodename
  • Wasexphome
  • Washome
  • Wasndhome
  • |Wasnode
  • Wastype
  • |Wasuser
  • Webports
  • Chapter 10. Using commands

  • Starting and ending a client command session
  • Process commands in batch mode
  • Process commands in interactive mode
  • Entering client commands
  • Command name
  • Options
  • Parameters
  • File specification syntax
  • Remembering previous commands
  • Using wildcard characters
  • Entering commands
  • Client commands reference
  • Archive
  • Backup Group
  • Backup Image
  • Backup NAS
  • Backup WAS
  • Cancel Process
  • Cancel Restore
  • Delete Access
  • Delete Archive
  • Delete Filespace
  • Delete Group
  • Expire
  • Help
  • Incremental
  • Loop
  • Macro
  • Monitor Process
  • Query Access
  • Query Archive
  • Query Backup
  • Query Backupset
  • Query Filespace
  • Query Group
  • Query Image
  • Query Inclexcl
  • Query Mgmtclass
  • Query Node
  • Query Options
  • Query Restore
  • Query Schedule
  • Query Session
  • Query Systeminfo
  • Query WAS
  • Restart Restore
  • Restore
  • Restore Backupset
  • Restore Group
  • Restore Image
  • Restore NAS
  • Restore WAS
  • Retrieve
  • Schedule
  • Selective
  • Set Access
  • Set Password
  • |Set Waspassword
  • Appendix A. Using the Tivoli Storage Manager central scheduler

  • Overview of the TSM scheduler
  • Handling spaces in file names in schedule definitions
  • Preferential start times for certain nodes
  • Understanding scheduler processing options
  • Handling return codes from preschedulecmd and postschedulecmd Scripts
  • Using the client acceptor to manage scheduler services versus the legacy scheduler services
  • Setting the client scheduler process to run as a background task and start automatically at boot time
  • Managing multiple schedule requirements on one machine
  • Restarting the scheduler process on a remote machine
  • Using the scheduler on clustered systems
  • Using the scheduler through a firewall
  • Troubleshooting the Tivoli Storage Manager scheduler
  • Investigating abnormal scheduled events
  • Checking the server activity log
  • Inspecting the Client Schedule Log
  • Appendix B. Configuring the backup-archive client in an HACMP takeover environment

  • Installing the backup-archive client
  • Configuring the backup-archive client to process local nodes
  • Configuring Tivoli Storage Manager backup-archive client to process cluster disk resources
  • Step 1: Register the client to a server
  • Step 2: Configure the client system options file
  • Step 3: Configure the client user options file
  • Defining the client as an HACMP application
  • Creating an HACMP resource group to add a client
  • Adding the client to an HACMP resource group
  • Notices

  • Trademarks
  • Glossary

    Index


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