Administrator's Guide
The following changes have been made for this edition:
- Creation of portable backup sets for clients
- The server can create portable backup sets for clients that are at the
latest level of Tivoli Storage Manager. The function consolidates a
client's active backup files onto portable media that may be directly
readable by the client's system for restore operations. See Generating Client Backup Sets on the Server.
- Logical volume backup for clients
- Backup-archive clients can now back up logical volumes to the Tivoli
Storage Manager server. See Policy for Logical Volume Backups for suggestions on policy for such backups.
- Performance enhancements
- Performance enhancements include the following:
- Automatic tuning of selected server options
- Selected server options can be tuned automatically by the server.
See Automatic Tuning of Server Options for a list of options.
- Database, recovery log, and all storage pool volumes
- TSM can specify a size from 0 to 64MB for VSAM I/O pages to allow a faster
throughput of data for operations involving the database, the recovery log,
and all storage pool volumes. See Improving VSAM and Tivoli Storage Manager Performance.
- Support for InfoSpeed communication protocol
- The server now supports IBM InfoSpeed for high speed transfer of
backup-archive data between the Tivoli Storage Manager server and the UNIX and
Windows NT clients over ESCON and SCSI interfaces. See
Administrator's Reference.
- Database page shadowing
- Database page shadowing mirrors every write to a database page so that the
server can recover pages that have been partially written to should an outage
occur that affects both mirrored volumes. Combined with the MIRRORREAD
and MIRRORWRITE server options for the database and recovery log, you can
specify your preferred level of protection, recoverability and
performance. See Specifying Mirroring and Database Page Shadowing Server Options.
- Database snapshot
- You now have the choice a making a database snapshot, which is a full
database backup to media that can be taken off-site. The database
snapshot does not interrupt any database backup series and cannot have
incremental database backups associated with it. See Doing Snapshot Database Backups.
- Proxy Web services
- See Quick Start for details.
- Password expiration controls
- You can reset the password expiration period for all or selected
users. See Setting User Password Expiration.
- Licensing changes
- Some features that formerly required the purchase of licenses are now part
of the base Tivoli Storage Manager product. See Licensed Features.
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