Policy-based movement
Policies and schedules reduce an administrator's workload and help ensure that the data is being protected in the correct manner.
Policies
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager has an extremely granular policy engine that is designed to automate its capabilities. This policy engine is configurable down to the individual file level. You can set policies as simple defaults or as highly tuned and customized options to help reduce costs and still meet specific service-level agreements. The end result is a set-it-and-forget-it experience that makes Tivoli Storage Manager highly suited for lights-out implementations. Should you need to make changes to the policies, Tivoli Storage Manager can apply these new policies to the data it's already managing-so you don't have to back up, archive or migrate the data again. After it has been configured, Tivoli Storage Manager can manage data protection for thousands of computers with minimal administrator assistance.
Client schedules
Users do not need to remember to back up their machines. Automated backup schedules do this for them. Tivoli Storage Manager is designed to allow you to set up as few or as many schedules as needed to meet your users' backup needs.
Administrator schedules and scripts
Routine administrative tasks can be scheduled to run during convenient server activity times. These activities can also be scripted to allow the processing of server commands sequentially or in parallel to other tasks.
Scheduling of both client and administrator operations can be done with an external scheduler or with the built-in IBM Tivoli Storage Manager scheduler. The Tivoli Storage Manager scheduler provides calendar-based scheduling for increased flexibility of client and administrative schedules. The scheduler can be exploited via administrative commands or a Web interface.
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