Tivoli Header

Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows Backup-Archive Clients Installation and User's Guide

Backing Up Data from the GUI

You can use Tivoli Storage Manager to back up specific files, a group of files with similar names, or entire directories. You can locate the files you want to back up by searching or filtering. Filtering displays only the files that match the filter criteria for your backup. Files that do not match the filter criteria do not display.

To perform a GUI backup, use the following steps:

  1. Click Backup from the GUI main window. The Backup window appears.
  2. Expand the directory tree by clicking the plus sign + or the folder icon next to an object in the tree. To search or filter files, click the Search icon from the tool bar.

      To search:

    1. Enter your search criteria in the Find Files (Backup) window.
    2. Click Search. The Matching Files (Backup) window appears.
    3. Click the selection boxes next to the files you want to restore and close the Matching Files (Backup) window.

      To filter:

      1. Enter your filter criteria in the Find Files (Backup) window.
      2. Click Filter. The Backup window displays the filtered files.
      3. Click the selection boxes next to the filtered files or directories you want to restore.
  3. Click the selection box for the object(s) you want to back up. Select File details on the View menu to view file attributes for any highlighted file.
  4. Select the type of backup from the pull down menu:
    1. To run an incremental backup, select Incremental (complete).
    2. To run an incremental backup by date, select Incremental (date only).
    3. To run a selective backup, select Always backup.
  5. To modify specific backup options, click the Options button located to the right of the Backup button. Any options you change are effective during the current session only. To estimate the transfer time for your backup selections click the Estimate button. (The Estimate button is not available in the Web client.)
  6. Click Backup. The Backup Task List window displays the backup processing status. When processing completes, the Backup Report window displays processing details.

To perform subsequent incremental backups, from the Tivoli Storage Manager main window, open the Actions menu and select Backup Domain.

Specifying Drives in Your Domain

When you start Tivoli Storage Manager, it sets your default domain to the drives you specify with the domain option in the dsm.opt file (see Domain). If you do not set the domain option, the default domain is all local fixed drives (the drives in your workstation).

Using the backup-archive command line client, you can specify drives to include in addition to your default domain. For example, if your default domain contains drives c: and d:, and you want to back up those drives as well as the diskette in drive a:, enter:

   dsmc incremental -domain="a:"

You can also use the Backup Domain function in the GUI to perform these backup functions.

Backing Up System Objects

Certain Windows NT, 2000, and XP system objects can be backed up together or individually. However, Microsoft recommends all system objects be backed up together to maintain a consistent system state. The following are valid system objects:

To back up system objects using the GUI, select the system objects tree from the backup window.

On the command line, use the backup systemobject command to back up all valid system objects. To back up system objects individually, see corresponding commands in Chapter 11, Using Commands.

See Backup: Additional Considerations for additional information to consider when performing a backup. You do not need to understand this information to perform basic backups.


[ Top of Page | Previous Page | Next Page | Table of Contents | Index ]