Installing the backup-archive client from the Tivoli Storage Manager DVDs

You can install the backup-archive client and its components from Tivoli® Storage Manager DVDs.

About this task

To install the backup-archive client from a DVD, you change to the directory that contains the installation image for your client operating system and you install the backup-archive client and its components.

The installation image for Windows backup-archive clients is in the setup directory.

The installation images for AIX®, HP-UX, Linux, Mac, and Solaris clients are in the following directories on the DVD:

• The AIX backup-archive client installation image is in the /usr/sys/inst.images directory.
• The HP-UX backup-archive client installation image is in the tsmcli/hp11ia64/ directory.
• The installation images for the backup-archive client on Linux systems are in the following DVD directories:
  • For Linux on Power Systems™: linuxPPC
  • For Linux on Power Systems (Little Endian): linuxPLE
  • For Ubuntu Linux on Power Systems (Little Endian) (API-only): linuxPLE_DEB
  • For Linux on x86_64 systems: tsmcli/linux86
  • For x86_64 Ubuntu systems: tsmcli/linux86_DEB
  • For Linux on System z®: linux390
• The installation images for the backup-archive client on Mac systems are in: mac
• The installation images for the backup-archive client on Oracle Solaris systems are in the following DVD directories:
  • For Solaris on x86_64 systems: tsmcli/solaris_x86
  • For Solaris on SPARC systems: tsmcli/solaris_sparc

1. Install the backup-archive clients by starting the installation program from the appropriate installation image directory.
2. Optional: Copy the installation images from the DVD to a server workstation so that client workstations can mount the server volume and start the installation from the server copies.

   Copy all of the files that are in the DVD installation directory for the client operating systems and all of the subdirectories and files that are subordinate to it.

   

   For example, Windows users can use the xcopy command to copy the setup directory and its subdirectories from the Windows DVD to a remote disk. In this example, the H drive represents the DVD drive letter and the X drive represents the remote disk: xcopy h:\setup\* x:\ /s. Substitute the drive letters that are appropriate for your environment.