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


Backing Up Your Data

Use Tivoli Storage Manager to store copies of your workstation files on a Tivoli Storage Manager server. These copies are called backup versions or backups. You can restore these backup versions from the server to your workstation if the original workstation files are lost or damaged. See Restoring Your Data for more information.

As a quick reference, this chapter includes instructions for the following task.

Task Page
Performing a Backup "Performing a Backup"

If you are a first-time user, Table 9 is a checklist of preliminary considerations before performing a backup:

Table 9. Preliminary Steps for Backing Up Files



___ Decide whether you want to backup files or archive them. See Do You Want to Back Up or Archive Files? for more information.
___ Decide what type of backup you want according to your needs. See the following sections for more information: Full Incremental Backup, Incremental-By-Date Backup, and Full Incremental versus Partial Incremental, Incremental-by-date Backups
___ Create an include-exclude list to specify files and folders you want to exclude from backup services. See Using the Include-Exclude List to Control Processing for more information.
___ For further backup considerations, see Backup Considerations


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