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Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows Backup-Archive Clients Installation and User's Guide
Tivoli Storage Manager supports backup and restore of network attached
storage (NAS) file system images to tape drives or libraries that are locally
attached to NAS file servers. Data Protection for NDMP enables backup
and restore support on the Tivoli Storage Manager Windows NT, 2000, XP, and
Windows.NET, AIX, and Solaris servers for NAS file servers from Network
Appliance. Data Protection for NDMP is available only with IBM
Tivoli Storage Manager Enterprise Edition..
For information on how to configure Data Protection for NDMP on the Tivoli
Storage Manager server, see the following publications:
- Tivoli Storage Manager for AIX Administrator's Guide,
GC32-0768
- Tivoli Storage Manager for Sun Solaris Administrator's
Guide, GC32-0778
- Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows Administrator's Guide,
GC32-0782
See Data Protection for NDMP Version 5.1 Requirements (Enterprise Edition only) for client and server hardware and software
requirements.
After configuring Data Protection for NDMP, the server connects to the NAS
device and uses NDMP to initiate, control, and monitor each backup and restore
operation. The NAS device performs outboard data transfer to and from
the NAS file system to a locally attached tape drive or library.
It is not necessary for a client node to mount a NAS file system to perform
backup or restore operations on that file system.
The benefits of performing backups using Data Protection for NDMP include
the following:
- LAN-free data transfer.
- High performance and scalable backups and restores.
- Backup to local tape devices without network traffic.
The following support is provided:
- Full file system image backup of all files within a NAS file
system.
- Differential file system image backup of all files that have changed since
the last full image backup.
- Parallel backup and restore operations when processing multiple NAS file
systems.
- Choice of interfaces to initiate, monitor, or cancel backup and restore
operations:
- Web client
- Backup-archive command line client
- Administrative command line client (backup and restore operations can be
scheduled using the administrative command scheduler)
- Administrative Web client
The following functions are not supported:
- Archive and retrieve
- Restoring or tracking of individual files within a file system
image.
- Client scheduling. Use server commands to schedule a NAS
backup.
- Detection of damaged files.
- Data-transfer operations for NAS data stored by Tivoli Storage
Manager:
- Migration
- Reclamation
- Storage pool backup and restore
- Move data
- Export
- Backup set generation
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