Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows: Administrator's Guide


Adding Devices

This section contains procedures for configuring devices with the Device Configuration Wizard, where applicable. While it is recommended that you use the wizard whenever possible, some devices, such as IBM 3494 Tape Library Dataservers, must be added using TSM commands.

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Adding Devices System

Adding Manual Devices

This section describes the procedure for configuring manually operated, stand-alone tape and optical devices that are supported by the TSM device driver. See Devices Supported by Tivoli Storage Manager.

For devices not yet supported by the TSM device driver, the Windows device driver can be used. See Adding Devices Not Supported by the Tivoli Storage Manager Device Driver.

  1. Attach the device to the system.

    Follow the manufacturer's instructions to attach the device to the system.

  2. Set up the appropriate device driver for the device.

    See Selecting the Appropriate Device Driver for Tivoli Storage Manager Devices.

  3. Configure the device.
    1. From the TSM Console, expand the tree for the server instance you are configuring.
    2. Click Wizards, then double click Device Configuration in the right pane. The Device Configuration Wizard appears.
    3. Follow the instructions in the wizard.
  4. Determine your backup strategy.

    Determine which device TSM backs up client data to, and whether client data is backed up to disk, and then migrated to tape, or if it is backed up directly to tape. See "Planning for Devices".

  5. Label volumes.

    See Preparing Media for Manual Library Devices.

Adding Automated Library Devices

This section describes the procedure for adding automated library devices with the Device Configuration Wizard.

  1. Attach the library device to the system.

    Follow the manufacturer's instructions to attach the device to the system.

  2. Set up the appropriate device driver for the library device.

    See Selecting the Appropriate Device Driver for Tivoli Storage Manager Devices.

  3. Configure the library device.
    1. From the TSM Console, expand the tree for the server instance you are configuring.
    2. Click Wizards, then double click Device Configuration in the right pane. The Device Configuration Wizard appears.
    3. Follow the instructions in the wizard.
  4. Determine your backup strategy.

    Determine which device TSM backs up client data to, and whether client data is backed up to disk, and then migrated to tape, or if it is backed up directly to tape. See "Planning for Devices".

  5. Label volumes.

    See Preparing Media for Manual Library Devices.

  6. Add volumes to the library.

    Add volumes to an automated device by checking the volumes into library. Scratch volumes are checked in differently than private volumes.

    Adding volumes depends on the presence of scratch volumes or private volumes in the library device:

Adding 3494 Automated Library Devices

IBM 3494 Tape Library Dataserver devices can only be added using TSM commands. See Adding Devices Using TSM Commands for detailed instructions and examples. The following guidelines must be followed:

3494 devices support only 3590 tape drives. You must always specify the ENABLE3590LIBRARY server option. When you enable support for 3590 drives for the server, the server reserves three different categories in the 3494 library. The categories are: private, unused, and scratch.

When you define 3494 libraries, you can specify the category numbers for volumes that TSM owns in that library by using the PRIVATECATEGORY and SCRATCHCATEGORY parameters. TSM automatically creates a scratch category for 3590 drives, by adding one to the SCRATCHCATEGORY parameter specified by the administrator. For example:

define library MY3494 libtype=349x device=3494a privatecategory=400 scratchcategory=401
 

TSM then uses the following categories in the new MY3494 library:

To avoid overlapping categories, do not specify a number that is equal to the scratch category plus 1.

Attention: The default values for the categories are acceptable in most cases. However, if you connect other systems or TSM servers to a single 3494 library device, ensure that each uses unique category numbers. Otherwise, two or more systems may try to use the same volume, and cause a corruption or loss of data.

For information on the ENABLE3590LIBRARY server option, see Administrator's Reference.

To set up the device, as for other sequential access devices, use the following steps:

  1. Attach the 3494 device to the system.

    Follow the manufacturer's instructions to attach the device to the system.

  2. Set up the TSM device driver for the 3494 device.

    See Selecting the Appropriate Device Driver for Tivoli Storage Manager Devices.

  3. Configure the 3494 device.

    See Using Commands to Define TSM Storage Objects for instructions on using TSM commands to configure the device.

  4. Determine your backup strategy.

    Determine which device TSM backs up client data to, and whether client data is backed up to disk, and then migrated to tape, or if it is backed up directly to tape. See "Planning for Devices".

  5. Update the TSM policy.

    Define the TSM policy that links client data with media for the device. For an example, see Defining and Updating a Policy Domain.

  6. Label volumes.

    See Labeling Media for use with an Automated Library Device or Labeling Media for use in a Manual Library Device.

  7. Add volumes to the 3494 device.

    Add volumes to an automated device by checking the volumes into library. Scratch volumes are checked in differently than private volumes.

    Adding volumes depends on the presence of scratch volumes or private volumes in the library device:

Adding Devices Not Supported by the Tivoli Storage Manager Device Driver

Unsupported devices can be added using TSM commands. See Adding Devices Using TSM Commands for detailed instructions and examples.

You can configure devices that run with their own or Windows device drivers as long as the devices meet TSM requirements. See Determine if Devices Meet Requirements for Using Windows Device Drivers with Tivoli Storage Manager.

  1. Attach the device to the system.

    Follow the manufacturer's instructions to attach the device to the system.

  2. Set up the appropriate Windows device driver for the device.

    See Selecting the Appropriate Device Driver for Tivoli Storage Manager Devices.

  3. Configure the device.

    See Using Commands to Define TSM Storage Objects for instructions on using TSM commands to configure the device. The following guidelines must be followed:

  4. Determine your backup strategy.

    Determine which device TSM backs up client data to, and whether client data is backed up to disk, and then migrated to tape, or if it is backed up directly to tape. See "Planning for Devices".

  5. Update the TSM policy.

    Define the TSM policy that links client data with media for the device. For an example, see Defining and Updating a Policy Domain.

  6. Label volumes.

    See Labeling Media for use with an Automated Library Device or Labeling Media for use in a Manual Library Device.

Adding Optical Devices

This section describes the procedure for configuring optical disk devices that are supported by the TSM device driver.

  1. Attach the device to the system.

    Follow the manufacturer's instructions to attach the device to the system.

  2. Set up the appropriate Windows device driver for the device.

    See Selecting the Appropriate Device Driver for Tivoli Storage Manager Devices.

  3. Configure the device.
    1. From the TSM Console, expand the tree to TSM Device Driver for the machine that you are configuring.
    2. Expand TSM Device Driver and Reports.
    3. Click Service Information IconService Information in the TSM Console tree in the left panel. The Service Information window appears in the right panel.
    4. Right click TSM Device Driver. A pop-up menu appears.
    5. Click Properties in the pop-up menu. The Device Driver Options dialog appears.
    6. Click to check the Enable Windows 2000 and Optical Device Support check box. The startup type is set to Boot as a default.
    7. Click OK. A warning message appears because the action changes some entries in the registry. Click OK.
    8. The TSM device driver now starts before Windows device drivers. If you do not want all devices to be controlled by the TSM device driver, exclude those devices from TSM control. See Controlling Some Devices With the TSM Device Driver and Others With Windows Device Drivers.

Adding Removable Media Devices

Removable media devices can be added using TSM commands. See Adding Devices Using TSM Commands for detailed instructions and examples. The following guidelines must be followed:

If a file system can be backed up to a removable media device, TSM may be able to use that device. TSM recognizes the device as a device with type REMOVABLEFILE. To use device type REMOVABLEFILE for a device, the device:

You can use the CD-ROM media as input media on a target TSM server by using the REMOVABLEFILE device class for input. Using REMOVABLEFILE device class for input allows TSM to distinguish media volumes by a "volume label", to prompt for additional media, and to dismount media.

With CD-ROM support for Windows, you can also use CD-ROM media as an output device class. Using CD-ROM media as output requires other software which uses a file system on top of the CD-ROM media. ADAPTEC Direct CD software is the most common package for this application. This media allows other software to write to a CD by using a drive letter and file names. The media can be either CD-R (read) or CD-RW (read/write).

If a data cartridge that is associated with a REMOVABLEFILE device class has two sides, TSM treats each side as a separate TSM volume.

To set up the device, as for other sequential access devices, use the following steps.

  1. Attach the device to the system.

    Follow the manufacturer's instructions to attach the device to the system.

  2. Set up the appropriate device driver for the device.

    See Selecting the Appropriate Device Driver for Tivoli Storage Manager Devices.

  3. Configure the device.

    See Using Commands to Define TSM Storage Objects for instructions on using TSM commands to configure the device. The following parameters must be specified:

  4. Determine your backup strategy.

    Determine which device TSM backs up client data to, and whether client data is backed up to disk, and then migrated to tape, or if it is backed up directly to tape. See "Planning for Devices" and Defining and Updating a Policy Domain.

  5. Label removable file media.

    TSM does not supply utilities to format or label CD-ROMs. Use the utilities that are supplied with the device or operating system. See Labeling Media for Devices not Supported by the TSM Device Driver.

Example of Removable File Support (CD-ROM)

Use these steps as an example of TSM REMOVABLEFILE support. This example takes an export object and moves it from one server to another.


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