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Technical Changes for Version 5 Release 1--March 2002

The following changes have been made to the product for this edition:

Server-Free Data Movement
Server-free data movement uses the SCSI-3 extended copy command to do full-volume backup and restore. It provides the following advantages:

See Administrator's Guide for more information.

See the following new commands:

DEFINE DISK

DEFINE PATH

DELETE DISK

DELETE PATH

QUERY DISK

QUERY PATH

SET SERVERFREE

UPDATE DISK

UPDATE PATH

See the following changed commands:

DEFINE DATAMOVER

DEFINE DRIVE

DEFINE LIBRARY

DEFINE STGPOOL

DELETE DATAMOVER

QUERY DATAMOVER

QUERY DRIVE

QUERY LIBRARY

QUERY STGPOOL

UPDATE DATAMOVER

UPDATE DRIVE

UPDATE LIBRARY

UPDATE STGPOOL

Changes in Defining Drives and Libraries

See Administrator's Guide for more information.

See the following new commands:

See the following changed commands:

DEFINE DRIVE

DEFINE LIBRARY

QUERY DRIVE

QUERY LIBRARY

UPDATE DRIVE

UPDATE LIBRARY

Moving Data by Node
You can use the MOVE NODEDATA command to move data in a sequential-access storage pool for one or more nodes, or move data in a single node with selected file spaces. You can also use MOVE NODEDATA to consolidate data for offsite disaster recovery storage, or move data to another storage pool.

See Administrator's Guide for more information.

Support for Simultaneous Writes to Primary and Copy Storage Pools
You can specify copy storage pools in a primary storage pool definition. When a client backs up, archives, or migrates a file, the file is written to the primary storage pool and is simultaneously stored into each copy storage pool.

See Administrator's Guide for more information.

See the following changed commands:

DEFINE STGPOOL

QUERY SESSION

QUERY STGPOOL

REGISTER NODE

UPDATE NODE

UPDATE STGPOOL

Data Validation with Cyclic Redundancy Checking
Tivoli Storage Manager provides the option of specifying whether a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) is performed during a client session with the server, or for storage pools. The server validates the data by using a cyclic redundancy check which can help identify data corruption. Data validation can be enabled for one or all of the following:

See Administrator's Guide and TSM Managed System for SAN Storage Agent User's Guide for more information.

See the following changed commands:

DEFINE SERVER

DEFINE STGPOOL

QUERY NODE

QUERY SERVER

QUERY VOLUME

REGISTER NODE

UPDATE NODE

UPDATE SERVER

UPDATE STGPOOL

New Licensing Method
The new licensing method enables you to register the exact number of licenses that are required, rather than in increments of 1, 5, 10, and 50.

See Administrator's Guide for more information.

Support for Windows XP/2002 Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Clients
Support is now added for Windows XP and Windows 2002 Tivoli Storage Manager backup-archive clients that run in 64-bit mode. These two Windows platforms are a Unicode-only version of the client.

See Administrator's Guide for more information.

See the following changed commands:

DELETE FILESPACE

GENERATE BACKUPSET

QUERY CONTENT

QUERY FILESPACE

QUERY OCCUPANCY

REGISTER NODE

RENAME FILESPACE

Communication Method
Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows no longer supports the Internetwork Packet Exchange (IPX)/SPX and NETBIOS communication methods. The COMMMETHOD server option has been updated to reflect this change.


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