Administrator's Guide


Chapter 11. Managing Client Data Using Policies

Policies are rules that you set at the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) server to help you manage client data. Policies control how and when client data is stored, for example:

Policy can be distributed from a configuration manager to managed servers. See Chapter 14, Working with a Network of Tivoli Storage Manager Servers for more information on distributing configurations.

See the following sections:

Concepts:
"Client Operations Controlled by Policy"
"The Parts of a Policy"
"More on Management Classes"
"How Files Are Deleted"
"How Tivoli Storage Manager Selects Files for Policy Operations"
"How Client Migration Works with Backup and Archive"
Tasks:
Getting Users Started
"Using the Standard Policy"
"Creating Your Own Policies"
"Defining and Updating a Policy Domain"
"Defining and Updating a Policy Set"
"Defining and Updating a Management Class"
"Defining and Updating a Backup Copy Group"
"Defining and Updating an Archive Copy Group"
"Assigning a Default Management Class"
"Validating and Activating a Policy Set"
"Running Expiration Processing to Delete Expired Files"
"Changing Policy with the Active Policy Set"
Setting Policy to Enable Point-in-Time Restore for Clients
Policy for Tivoli Storage Manager Servers as Clients
"Configuring Policy for Tivoli Data Protection Application Clients"
Policy for Logical Volume Backups
"Distributing Policy Using Enterprise Configuration"
"Querying Policy"
"Deleting Policy"

In this chapter, most examples illustrate how to perform tasks by using the TSM command line interface. For information about the TSM commands, see Administrator's Reference, or issue the HELP command from the command line of a TSM administrative client.

All of the TSM commands can be performed from the administrative Web interface. For more information about using the administrative interface, see Quick Start.


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