Air Cleaner User Manual

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for System Backup and Recovery

Overview

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for System Backup and Recovery (also known as

“SysBack”) provides system administrators and other system users with a simple,

efficient way to backup and recover data from a command line or a SMIT

menu-driven interface. SysBack lets you recover all or part of the system. SysBack

is also flexible; you can install one system installation image to another system

with either identical or different hardware configurations, called “cloning”

SysBack features let you:

v Create various types of backups, including:

– Full system (installation image)

– Volume groups

– Logical volumes (raw data)

– Filesystems

– Specific directories or files

v Incrementally backup and restore data.

v Perform “power” system backups that enable faster backup and restore times by

backing up all data as raw logical volumes and heighten read/write

performance while reducing CPU usage.

v Perform backups to locally attached tape drives or files on disk and remote

hosts across the network.

v Selectively exclude specific files, directories, filesystems, or logical volumes from

backups.

v Centrally manage backup clients using “pull” backups from a single server.

v Create backup scripts for easy automation.

v Define backup schedules for easy automation.

v Execute pre and post-backup scripts that enable environment-specific task

automation, including halting database applications before beginning a backup.

v Perform backups to multiple sequential devices, automatically continuing the

backup on the next device when the first is full and minimizing manual

intervention when autoloading libraries are not available.

v Perform backups to multiple parallel devices, called “striping,” which lets you

complete a single backup in a fraction of the normal time.

v Create multiple copies of a single backup to different devices in approximately

the same time it takes for a single copy.

v View progress status indicators that display estimated backup or restore sizes,

times, performance estimates and a completion percentage estimate.

v Receive completion status logs on all backup, list and verification operations.

v Use SMIT menus to configure SysBack options, which let you backup and

restore volume groups, logical volumes, filesystems, directories, or files and list

and verifying backup images.

v Use sequential autoloading devices to minimize manual intervention and tape

loading operations.

v “Stack” multiple backups on a single tape for all backup types.