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This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides details of changes, updates, and new functions in IBM Tivoli® Storage Manager Version 6.1. We cover all the new functions of Tivoli Storage Manager that have become available since the publication of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Version 5.4 and Version 5.5 Technical Guide, SG24-7447. This book is for customers, consultants, IBM Business Partners, and IBM and Tivoli staff who are familiar with earlier releases of Tivoli Storage Manager and who want to understand what is new in Version 6.1. Hence, since we target an experienced audience, we use certain shortcuts to commands and concepts of Tivoli Storage Manager. If you want to learn more about Tivoli Storage Manager functionality, see IBM Tivoli Storage Management Concepts, SG24-7447, and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Implementation Guide, SG24-5416. This publication should be used in conjunction with the manuals and readme files provided with the products and is not intended to replace any information contained therein.

The objective of this IBM Redbooks publication is to provide comprehensive instructions for deploying the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager to various environments. Readers should possess general knowledge of communication network architecture and design, basic size considerations of the Tivoli Storage Manager database, and basic pool management of Tivoli Storage Manager servers. This document is intended to be read and used by presales systems engineers and services personnel to build a customized deployment of the Tivoli Storage Manager. We expect such individuals have significant knowledge of Tivoli Storage Manager, and ideally the reader has attended Tivoli Storage Manager basic and advanced training classes. The reader must be familiar with the following topics: Storage management concepts Network topologies Distributed systems architectures and configuration This book is a valuable addition to, and can be read in conjunction with the existing product documentation.

This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides details of changes, updates, and new functions in IBM Tivoli® Storage Manager Version 5.4, and Version 5.5. We cover all the new functions of Tivoli Storage Manager that have become available since the publication of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Version 5.3 Technical Guide, SG24-6638. This book is for customers, consultants, IBM Business Partners, and IBM and Tivoli staff who are familiar with earlier releases of Tivoli Storage Manager and who want to understand what is new in Version 5.4 and Version 5.5. Hence, since we target an experienced audience, we use certain shortcuts to commands and concepts of Tivoli Storage Manager. If you want to learn more about Tivoli Storage Manager functionality, see IBM Tivoli Storage Management Concepts, SG24-4877, and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Implementation Guide, SG24-5416. This publication should be used in conjunction with the manuals and readme files provided with the products and is not intended to replace any information contained therein.

This IBM Redbook describes how to integrate, install, configure, and operate the very latest IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Release 5.3 in heterogeneous environments. You will learn how to implement and operate IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. You should already have a conceptual understanding of Tivoli Storage Manager. We show you how to set up and implement the software, covering basic and advanced topics for Windows, AIX, and Linux based operating system platforms. We demonstrate how to handle all important tasks to protect your business: planning, client and server installation, operations, performance considerations, SAN environments, NDMP, as well as explaining many more features. This practical guide is intended for the following audiences: system administrators new to IBM Tivoli Storage Manager who are asked to commence a basic IBM Tivoli Storage Manager implementation for the very first time, and administrators who want to learn more about the basic and advanced components and their implementation.

Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files is specifically targeted at user computers, such as mobile computers and workstations, as well as file servers. It provides continuous data protection of files, providing the highest level of protection possible, yet is simple to use and administer. This IBM Redbooks® publication presents a deployment guide for Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files Version 3.1. We cover planning, installing, and troubleshooting of Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files for several use case scenarios. In addition, we provide some case studies, including integration with IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, that can be used as a proof of concept or demonstration of the product at a client environment. The target audience for this documentation is IT Specialists who will be working on Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files installations and proof of concepts.

This IBM Redbooks publication is a study guide for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Version 5.4 and is aimed at individuals who want to get IBM Certifications in this specific product. The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Certification, offered through the Professional Certification Program from IBM, is designed to validate the skills required of technical professionals who work in the implementation of the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Version 5.4 product. This book provides a combination of theory and practical experience needed for a general understanding of the subject matter. It also provides sample questions that will help in the evaluation of personal progress and provide familiarity with the types of questions that will be encountered in the exam. This publication does not replace practical experience, and it is not designed to be a stand-alone guide for any subject. Instead, it is an effective tool that, when combined with education activities and experience, can be a very useful preparation guide for the exam.

Many people want to be famous, but nobody wants to hit the headlines in an incident resulting in the theft or misuse of their employees' or clients' confidential data. While the necessity of securing the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the enterprise's servers and data is well-known and understood, the backup server is often overlooked in the security planning. This is very regrettable, because the backup server infrastructure stores copies of all the enterprise's most important data, often going back years. Valuable data is often copied to tape and transported off-site. These tape cartridges are highly portable and hence potentially vulnerable to loss or theft. Knowing all this, the backup server and its infrastructure could represent a highly attractive target of unauthorized access from either inside or outside your data center. How secure are your backup server and its disk arrays? Do you know where each and every one of your backup tapes is located - right now? This IBM Redbooks publication will take you through the various security features of Tivoli Storage Manager and show you how to use them, together with best practice principles, to design, implement, and administer a more secure backup management environment. We will cover passwords, administrative levels of control, the vital role of encryption, and procedures for managing off-site data, among other topics. This IBM Redbooks publication is targeted at experienced Tivoli Storage Manager administrators - we assume a good knowledge of

This IBM Redbook provides detailed descriptions and setup instructions, practical examples, and best practices for backing up the IBM System Storage N series using the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. We include descriptions and instructions for using the latest enhancements made to IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, specifically for the IBM System Storage N series and Network Appliance storage systems. You will learn how to configure and set up the IBM System Storage N series and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Version 5.3.2.3 using NDMP backup and restore functions. We address the following topics: - Configuring the N series for NDMP usage - Using the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager software - Backup of qtrees - Single folder backup - Single file/folder restore - Restore using NDMP via GUI and command line interface - Restore from NDMP backup to an alternative site/location on N series systems - Integration with snapshot technology and snapvault

This IBM Redbooks publication is a study guide for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Version 5.4 and is aimed at individuals who want to get IBM Certifications in this specific product. The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Certification, offered through the Professional Certification Program from IBM, is designed to validate the skills required of technical professionals who work in the implementation of the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Version 5.4 product. This book provides a combination of theory and practical experience needed for a general understanding of the subject matter. It also provides sample questions that will help in the evaluation of personal progress and provide familiarity with the types of questions that will be encountered in the exam. This publication does not replace practical experience, and it is not designed to be a stand-alone guide for any subject. Instead, it is an effective tool that, when combined with education activities and experience, can be a very useful preparation guide for the exam.

In order to improve the performance and operational efficiency of businesses worldwide, a customer using SAP wanted to establish a global business program to define and implement a standardized, group-wide business process architecture and associated master data for the parameterization of the group software tools. The expected growth of the number of users and the size of the database would be at a level never reached by other customers, however, so IBM was asked to undertake the following: - Test the application to be sure it could sustain such growth. - Prove the manageability of the solution. - Provide recommendations to optimize the infrastructure architecture. This IBM Redbooks publication describes the testing that was done in terms of performance and manageability in a SAP NetWeaver BI (SAP BW) and DB2 environment on IBM System p™ when scaling a client's solution to a data warehouse of 20 terabytes (TB). It also provides recommendations for an architecture to support a potential 60 TB data warehouse. The book resulted from a joint cooperative effort that included the PSSC, the IBM/SAP International Competency Center, the DB2-SAP Center of Excellence, SAP AG, and a customer.