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


Chapter 8. Understanding Storage Management Policies

Storage management policies are rules your administrator defines in order to manage your backups and archives on the server. You can associate (or bind) your data to these policies; then when the data is backed up or archived, it is managed according to policy criteria. Policy criteria include a policy domain, a policy set, a copy group, and a management class.

Policies determine:

If you have the Tivoli Space Manager client installed, your administrator also defines rules that determine whether files are eligible for migration from your local file systems to storage.

This chapter explains:


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