Tivoli® Storage Manager backup-archive client version 7.1 contains many new features and changes.
- VM functionality added to the delete backup and expire commands
- The delete backup and the expire command
have been enhanced to support the -objtype=VM option.
When this option is entered, the commands deal only with VM backups.
This new feature applies to platforms that support VM.
- The delete backup command can be used to delete backups of VM filespaces, either active or inactive versions. When the -objtype=VM option is used, this specifies that you want to delete one or more versions of VM backups. When -objtype=VM is entered, thedeltype and filelist options can not be used.
- The expire command can be used to expire an active VM backup.
- Support added for Automated System Recovery (ASR) of Windows clients that use UEFI
- ASR data backup and ASR recovery are now supported on Windows client systems that use boot by using either BIOS or Universal Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI).
- New parameter added to INCLUDE.VMTSMVSS option
- A new parameter has been added to the INCLUDE.VMTSMVSS client option to enhance Tivoli Storage Manager application protection functions. If OPTions KEEPSqllog is specified on an INCLUDE.VMTSMVSS statement, this parameter prevents SQL server logs from being truncated when a backup-archive client that is installed on a data mover node backs up a virtual machine that is running a SQL server. Specifying this parameter allows the SQL server administrator to manually manage (backup, and possibly truncate) the SQL server logs, so they can be preserved as needed and be used to restore SQL transactions to a specific checkpoint, after the virtual machine is restored.
- Automated client failover for data recovery
- The backup-archive client can be set up to automatically
fail over to the secondary server when
the primary Tivoli Storage
Manager server
is unavailable. When the client fails over to the secondary server,
you can restore or retrieve any data that has been replicated.
For more information, see Automated client failover configuration and use.
- Protection for vCloud vApps added
- Customers who are licensed to use IBM® Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual
Environments can
now back up, query, and restore vCloud vApps. New commands and new
options are added to support vCloud vApps.
- New or changed commands:
- New options:
Snapshot differential backup with a secure HTTPS connection- You can use the snapdiffhttps option to run snapshot
differential backups of NetApp filers with a secure HTTPS connection.
To successfully run snapshot differential backups, previous releases
of the backup-archive client required HTTP administrative access to
be enabled on the NetApp filer. With the snapdiffhttps option,
you can establish a secure administrative session with the NetApp
filer regardless of whether HTTP administrative access is enabled
on the filer. For more
information, see Snapshot differential backup with an HTTPS connection. For more information, see Snapshot differential backup with an HTTPS connection.
- Tivoli Storage
Manager V7.1 supports
the BTRFS (B-tree) file system on SLES 11 SP2, or later, on IBM System x®, System p®, and System z®.
- In previous releases, you could back up and restore BTRFS file
systems, but they were identified as an unknown file
system in the Tivoli Storage
Manager GUI
(click the information icon) and command output. You can now back
up and restore data in Btrfs file systems with the backup-archive
client on Linux. Btrfs file
system ACLs and extended attributes are also backed up. You can also
archive, retrieve, run image backups, and perform image restore operations
on the Btrfs file system. For more information, see "Backing up and
restoring Btrfs file system data".
For more information, see Backing up and restoring Btrfs file systems.
- Instant access and instant restore is supported for Windows clients running on Windows vStorage backup servers
- Customers who are licensed to use IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual
Environments can
use client options and commands to restore a VMware virtual machine
backup that will be available for immediate use, either for validating
the backed up data or for restoring it to permanent storage. Instant access
and instant restore operations and options are supported only for
VMware virtual machines that are hosted on VMware ESXi 5.1 servers,
or later versions. For information about using or configuring instant access or instant restore operations, see the following topics:
- Hyper-V support enhanced to support the new Microsoft API
- The backup-archive client has been updated to use the new Microsoft API for Hyper-V servers. This continues the support for backing up Hyper-V guests that run on a local disk or on cluster shared volumes.
- Snapshot differential backups enhanced with persistent change
log database
- Snapshot differential backup operations are enhanced to minimize the need to run full progressive incremental backups. The backup-archive client must complete an initial full progressive incremental backup without failures before snapshot differential backups can occur. The persistent snapshot differences change log database is used to track the differences between two snapshots when a snapshot differential backup is completed. The change log persists between backup operations. These enhancements are included the backup-archive client program and do not require user interaction. There are no documentation updates for this feature.
- TLS/SSL is now supported on Mac OS X clients
- Mac OS X client and server communications can now be secured by TLS/SSL encryption.