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Changes for Version 3 Release 7-September 1999

The following changes have been made for this edition:

Creation of portable backup sets for clients
The server can create portable backup sets for clients that are at the latest level of Tivoli Storage Manager. The function consolidates a client's active backup files onto portable media that may be directly readable by the client's system for restore operations.

Logical volume backup for clients
Backup-archive clients can now back up logical volumes to the Tivoli Storage Manager server.

Performance enhancements
Performance enhancements include the following:

Automatic tuning of selected server options
Selected server options can be tuned automatically by the server.

Database, recovery log, and all storage pool volumes
TSM can specify a size from 0 to 64MB for VSAM I/O pages to allow a faster throughput of data for operations involving the database, the recovery log, and all storage pool volumes.

Database page shadowing
Database page shadowing mirrors every write to a database page so that the server can recover pages that have been partially written to should an outage occur that affects both mirrored volumes. Combined with the MIRRORREAD and MIRRORWRITE server options for the database and recovery log, you can specify your preferred level of protection, recoverability and performance.

Database load and audit enhancements
A new utility has been added to recover the contents of the database when the server is offline.

Database snapshot
You now have the choice of making a database snapshot, which is a full database backup to media that can be taken off-site. The database snapshot does not interrupt any database backup series and cannot have incremental database backups associated with it.

Device support
Enhancements to device support include:

Proxy Web services
See Quick Start for details.

Password expiration controls
You can reset the password expiration period for all or selected users.

Licensing changes
Some features that formerly required the purchase of licenses are now part of the base Tivoli Storage Manager product.


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