Tivoli® Storage Manager offers another way to back up file systems. You can use this program in combination with, or instead of, DFSMShsm for your backup needs related to file systems. Tivoli Storage Manager is a client/server based product and offers some additional features that are not available from DFSMShsm.

• The z/OS UNIX System Services Client is available to back up the individual files and directories within a file system.
• Tivoli Storage Manager features a Central Scheduling component which can schedule z/OS UNIX client activity, such as "Selective Backup" at defined intervals. For example, you can back up the files in a specific subdirectory every four hours.
• Separate policies can be applied to a specific client node such that individual directories and files within a given file system can be effectively managed using retention, expiration and versioning attributes. These sophisticated features of Tivoli Storage Manager used in conjunction with a comprehensive INCLUDE/EXCLUDE list on the z/OS UNIX client platform provide a great deal of control over what is backed up and how the data is managed.
• End users can recover individual files that they have appropriate authority access to.