- Support for Mobile Clients
- When a client's file has been previously backed up, Tivoli Storage
Manager can make subsequent backups to the portion (a subfile) of
the file that has changed, rather than the entire file.
This enhancement makes it possible for remote or mobile users using modems
with limited bandwidth to reduce connection time, network traffic, and the
time it takes to do a backup. This enhancement also uses encryption to
protect client's data.
See the following new command for details:
- SET SUBFILE
See the following changed commands for details:
- DEFINE CLIENTOPT
- QUERY STATUS
- Support and Enhancements for Windows 2000
- Removable Storage Manager (RSM) is a service included with Windows 2000
that facilitates communication among applications, robotic changers, and media
libraries. It enables multiple applications to share local robotic
media libraries and tape or disk drives, and manage removable media with a
single-server system.
See the following changed commands for details
- DEFINE DEVCLASS
- UPDATE DEVCLASS
- DEFINE LIBRARY
- QUERY LIBRARY
- Managed System for SAN Environments
- Tivoli Storage Manager has been enhanced to support LAN-free data movement
in storage area network (SAN) environments. Support is currently
limited. The support allows client data to move directly from the
client system to a server-managed storage device on the SAN, instead of moving
first from the client system to the server over the LAN and then to the
device. This enhancement reduces data movement on the LAN so that more
bandwidth is available to other applications. This enhancement also
increases tape library sharing for multiple TSM servers.
See the following new commands for details:
- DEFINE DRIVEMAPPING
- DELETE DRIVEMAPPING
- QUERY DRIVEMAPPING
- UPDATE DRIVEMAPPING
See the following changed commands for details:
- DEFINE LIBRARY
- QUERY LIBRARY
- UPDATE LIBRARY
- CHECKIN LIBVOLUME
- CHECKOUT LIBVOLUME
- LABEL LIBVOLUME
- QUERY LIBVOLUME
- UPDATE LIBVOLUME
- Storage Area Network (SAN) Tape Library Sharing
- Tivoli Storage Manager takes advantage of SAN-attached tape libraries by
sharing devices among TSM servers that use the same operating system.
One of the servers acts as the library manager and the other servers are
library clients.
See the following changed commands:
- DEFINE LIBRARY
- UPDATE LIBRARY
- A New Method to Format the Database and Recovery Log
- The dump, format, and load procedures used for the Tivoli Storage Manager
database can create problems when the database is initially installed on a
previous version of TSM and new defaults are added in a later version.
To avoid these potential problems, a new DSMSERV utility, DSMSERV LOADFORMAT,
is provided that will format the database and recovery log specifically for
load and will not initialize the defaults.
See the following new command for details:
- DSMSERV LOADFORMAT
See the following changed commands for details:
- DSMSERV RESTORE DB
- DSMSERV LOADDB
- DSMSERV DUMPDB