Administrator's Reference
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 the following new commands for details:
- DEFINE BACKUPSET
- DELETE BACKUPSET
- GENERATE BACKUPSET
- QUERY BACKUPSET
- QUERY BACKUPSETCONTENTS
- UPDATE BACKUPSET
- Performance enhancements
- Performance enhancements include the following:
- Automatic tuning of selected server options
- Selected server options can be tuned automatically by the server.
See Appendix B, Tailoring Server Options for a list of options.
- Flat file throughput
- Capability for overlapping BSAM I/O can increase throughput for flat
files.
- 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.
- 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 Appendix B, Tailoring Server Options for details.
- 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 Appendix B, Tailoring Server Options for details.
- Database load and audit enhancements
- A new utility has been added to recover the contents of the database when
the server is offline. See the DSMSERV UNLOADDB command for
details.
- 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 the changed commands for details:
- BACKUP DB
- DSMSERV RESTORE DB
- QUERY VOLHISTORY
- RECONCILE VOLUMES
- Proxy Web services
- See Quick Start for details.
- Password expiration controls
- You can reset the password expiration period for all or selected
users.
See the following changed commands for details:
- REGISTER NODE
- REGISTER ADMIN
- Licensing changes
- Some features that formerly required the purchase of licenses are now part
of the base Tivoli Storage Manager product.
See the REGISTER LICENSE command for details.
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