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

Imagetype

Authorized User

Use the imagetype option with the with the backup image command or the include.image option to specify the type of image backup you want to perform.

Place the include.image statement containing the imagetype value in your client system options file dsm.sys.

Note:
The Tivoli Storage Manager Client API does not support this option.

Supported Clients

This option is valid for AIX, AIX5L, Solaris, HP-UX, and Linux86 clients only.

Syntax

>>-IMAGEtype- value--------------------------------------------><
 
 

Parameters

value
Specifies one of the following values:

snapshot
Specifies that you want to perform an online image backup during which the volume is available to other system applications. This is the default for file systems residing on a logical volume created by the Linux Logical Volume Manager. Valid for Linux86 only.

dynamic
Replaces the dependency on the Copy Serialization value in the management class to perform an image backup without unmounting and remounting the file system read-only. Use this option only if the volume cannot be unmounted and remounted read-only. Tivoli Storage Manager backs up the volume as is without remounting it read-only. Corruption of the backup may occur if applications write to the volume while the backup is in progress. In this case, run chkdsk after a restore.

static
Replaces the dependency on the Copy Serialization value in the management class. Specifies that you want to perform an offline image backup during which the volume is unmounted and remounted read only. This is the default for AIX, AIX5L, Solaris, and HP-UX. Valid for AIX, AIX5L, Solaris, HP-UX, and Linux86 only.

Examples

Options file:
include.image /home MYMC imagetype=static

Command line:
-imagetype=static


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