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Tivoli Storage Manager for NetWare Backup-Archive Client Installation and User's Guide

Storage Management Services

Tivoli Storage Manager uses Novell's Storage Management Services (SMS) as the interface to the NetWare operating system. This section discusses the pertinent components of the SMS architecture.

Note that any limitations existing in the SMS architecture imply a limitation of Tivoli Storage Manager.

Target Service Agent (TSA)
A target in the context of SMS is an entity on the network that requires back up. To Tivoli Storage Manager, these targets are NetWare servers and NDS trees.

The TSA presents data in a system independent data format known as SIDF (system independent data format).

To back up the NDS, the target service agent TSANDS.NLM must be loaded on one of the NetWare servers in the network. Typically, TSANDS.NLM is loaded on the same server on which DSMC.NLM is loaded, but these modules can be loaded on separate servers. See Specifying the Entire NDS for Backup for more discussion.

The target service agent for NetWare 5.1 servers is TSA500.NLM. Use for TSA600.NLM for NetWare 6.1 servers.

Storage Management Data Requester (SMDR)
SMDR is the communication agent between the backup application and the target service agent. You must load the SMDR.NLM module to perform a backup or restore of the NDS. Tivoli Storage Manager automatically loads the SMDR.NLM module.

SMS Currency
It is important to use the most current SMS modules available from Novell to avoid problems such as memory leaks or server crashes. The Tivoli Storage Manager NetWare client does not include these SMS modules.You can obtain current copies of the TSA500.NLM or TSA600.NLM, TSANDS.NLM, and SMDR.NLM modules through Novell. For current information about Novell NLM, OS currency, and SMS code levels, visit:
http://www.novell.com

For current information about Tivoli Storage Manager client currency, visit:

http://www.tivoli.com

on the Web or our FTP server at

ftp.software.ibm.com


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