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Chapter 21. Exporting and Importing Data

Tivoli Storage Manager provides an export-import facility that allows you to copy all or part of a server to removable media (export) so that data can be transferred to another server (import).

Task Required Privilege Class
Perform export and import operations System
Display information about export and import operations Any administrator

This chapter takes you through the export and import tasks. See the following sections:

Concepts:
"Data That Can Be Exported and Imported"
Tasks:
"Preparing to Export or Import Data"
"Monitoring Export and Import Processes"
"Exporting Data to Sequential Media Volumes"
"Importing Data from Sequential Media Volumes"

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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