Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows: Administrator's Guide


Chapter 7. Managing Drives and Libraries

Use this chapter for details on defining and managing drives and libraries. In TSM, a library is a collection of drives for which volume mounts are accomplished by using a common method, for example, by an operator or by robotic mechanisms. A drive is a hardware device capable of performing operations on a specific type of sequential media. TSM categorizes each drive using a device type value that is based on the attributes of the hardware device.

One or more drives can be defined as part of each library. For examples of defining libraries and drives, see Chapter 4, Adding Devices to Tivoli Storage Manager.

If the DEVCONFIG option is included in the dsmserv.opt file, the files you specify with that option are automatically updated whenever a library, drive, or device class is defined, updated, or deleted.

See the following sections:

Concepts:
"How Tivoli Storage Manager Uses Sequential Access Devices"
Tasks:
"Defining and Managing Libraries"
"Defining and Managing Drives"
"Cleaning Drives"

In this chapter, most examples illustrate how to perform tasks by using a Tivoli Storage Manager command-line interface. For information about the commands, see Administrator's Reference, or issue the HELP command from the command line of a Tivoli Storage Manager administrative client.

Tivoli Storage Manager tasks can also be performed from the administrative Web interface. For more information about using the administrative interface, see Quick Start.


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