The IBM® Tivoli® Storage Manager (TSM) family of offerings offers a wide range of features supporting centralized, automated data protection that can help reduce the risks associated with data loss while helping to manage costs, reduce complexity and address compliance with regulatory data retention requirements.
Detailed information about these features including platform and version information is available online in IBM Tivoli Storage Manager publications.
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager features
| Feature |
Benefits |
| Active data storage pools |
Allows optimized access to active versions for faster restores. The active version storage pools can be populated at backup time or after backups complete. |
| Administrator Center/ Administrator User interface |
Task-orientated interface to manage one or more TSM servers |
| API |
Allows for critical online backup services to data-intensive applications |
| Archive |
Helps quickly and easily retrieve archived data, helping effectively extend your data storage capabilities without the need for more expensive online storage |
| Backup Sets (rapid restores or instant archives) |
Provides the ability to create a backup set that consolidates a client's files onto a set of media that is portable and may be directly readable by the clients' system for fast, LAN-free (non-networked) restore operations |
| Bare Machine Restore (bare metal restore) |
Restores the operating system of Windows, Sun™, Linux, HP and AIX |
| Checksum |
Adds an additional layer of data verification between the TSM server and client running in unstable hardware environments |
| Cluster Support |
Support for HACMP®, Windows MSCS and Novell NCS |
| Collocation Groups |
Takes the grouping of individual clients' data a step further by enabling you to specify that particular clients' data should reside on their own tape or set of tapes |
| Compression |
Clients can choose to have their data compressed prior to being sent to the TSM server to help conserve bandwidth |
| Continuous Data Protection |
Back up files the second they close or are saved |
| Data Shredding |
Destroys sensitive data objects when deleted or moved, preventing undesirable data discovery. Data that resided in random access disk storage pools can be overwritten up to 10 times. |
| DB2® Online Backup |
Makes use of our client API for backup and recovery without additional software or licensing requirement |
| Disaster Recovery Manager (DRM) |
Creates a disaster recovery plan and facilitates the tracking of off-site volumes. The plan contains detailed recovery steps and automated computer scripts. |
| Dynamic Multi-Threaded Transfer |
Improves backup and restore rates by transparently optimizing the number of TSM sessions based on available system resources |
| Electronic Vaulting |
Sends one TSM server's off-site backups or database backups to another TSM server via the network |
| Encryption |
Allows for the files that will be backed up or archived to be encrypted before being sent to the TSM server Offers device-level encryption managed by TSM |
| Enterprise Error Logging |
Allows TSM servers to forward their events and those of their clients to a server designated as the event server, thereby consolidating events from groups of TSM servers and clients |
| Enterprise Configuration and Policy Management |
Allows TSM configuration and policy information to be defined one time at a TSM configuration server and then propagated to any number of managed TSM servers |
| Image Backup |
Complements progressive incremental backups to provide full file system backup and restores |
| VMWare Consolidated Backup (VCB) |
Consolidated Backup is a backup solution for ESX Server + SAN. Uses a single agent on the proxy server rather than an agent on every virtual machine. Manages virtual machine's backup data as if it had been backed up by a TSM client installed on virtual machine. |
| HSM (Hierarchal Space Management) |
Moves inactive data off of production machines to free online disk space for important active data |
| Individual Mailbox (IMR) Restore |
Provides Individual Mailbox Restore from Microsoft® Exchange |
| Import/Export Over LAN |
Allows for the migration of TSM servers with server-to-server migration or load balancing among servers with incremental network export/import using a TCP/IP connection between same or differing platforms |
| Include/Exclude Lists |
Lists that customize which files are considered for backup or archive |
| Macros, scripts and command line control |
Enables for the processing of customized procedures from macros or scripts |
| Off-site Copies (backup copies) |
Continues to track the off-site volumes' content, so if a tape has to be brought back on-site because the original tape failed or because the data on it has expired, TSM will let the admin know |
| Open File Backup |
Allows for the backup of files that are open |
| Image Backup |
Complements progressive incremental backups to provide full file system backup and restores |
| Progressive Incremental Backup |
Backs up only files that have changed or that are new, eliminating unnecessary data transfers that rob your network and CPUs of vital power and productivity |
| SQL® Interface |
SQL support for queries against the TSM server database |
| Synchronous Off-Site Backups |
Create an off-site backup at the same time the primary backup is taken |
| Volume /File system Level Backup |
Allows for faster recovery |
| Web based clients and administration interface |
Simple, familiar interface reduces training time and can increase productivity |
| Windows Certification - Active Directory® Schema |
Extension Active Directory Schema Extension Information: Allows TSM server connection information to be published by a TSM server and to be dynamically looked up by Tivoli Storage Manager BA clients |
| Microsoft Exchange support |
VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Services) requestor interface to drive the Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Services for backup and recovery of Exchange Server databases. Individual mailbox restore gives backup flexibility down to the user level |
| Windows SCSI and Fibre Failover |
Allows for the failover of SCSI and Fibre attached devices being used by the TSM server in a Windows clustered, AIX/HACMP and Veritas cluster server environment |
| Tivoli Data Warehouse Integration |
Extracts server data to populate the Tivoli Data Warehouse |
