IBM® Tivoli® Storage Manager is a client/server licensed product that provides storage management services in a multiplatform computer environment.
The backup-archive client program enables users to back up and archive files from their workstations or file servers to storage, and restore and retrieve backup versions and archived copies of files to their local workstations.
- A server program that acts as a backup and archive server for
distributed workstations and file servers.
The server program also supplies
hierarchical storage management (HSM) services, and enables systems
to perform as a migration server. - An administrative client program that you can access from a web browser or from the command line. The program enables a Tivoli Storage Manager administrator to control and monitor server activities, define storage management policies for backup, archive, and space management services, and set up schedules to perform those services at regular intervals.
- An application programming interface (API) that you can use to enhance an existing application with storage management services. When an application is registered with a server as a client node, the application can back up, restore, archive, and retrieve objects from storage.
- A web backup-archive client that enables an authorized administrator, help desk person, or other users to perform backup, restore, archive, and retrieve services by using a web browser on a remote system.
Associated with Tivoli Storage Manager, but sold separately,
are the Tivoli Storage Manager
for Space Management and Tivoli Storage
Manager HSM for Windows client
programs. These products automatically migrate eligible files to storage
to maintain specific levels of free space on local file systems and
automatically recall migrated files when they are accessed. It also
enables users to migrate and recall specific files.
The terms hierarchical
storage management and space management have the
same meaning throughout this publication.