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This IBM Redbooks publication describes how to plan, install, and implement backup and restore for Microsoft SQL Server using Tivoli Storage Manager products. The book is intended for Tivoli Storage Manager professionals who are responsible for the backup and restore of a Microsoft SQL Server installation using Tivoli Storage Manager. We discuss the planning, installation, and operation of Tivoli Storage Manager with Microsoft SQL Server. We also give an overview of the Tivoli Storage Manager family of products. We provide essential information regarding Microsoft SQL Server - information intended to assist Tivoli Storage Manager administrators understand the database middleware platform.

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.

This IBM Redbook describes the features and functions of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. It introduces Tivoli Storage Management concepts for those new to storage management, in general, and to IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, in particular. This easy-to-follow guide gives a broad understanding of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager software, the key technologies to know, and the solutions available to protect your business. It offers a broad understanding of how IBM Tivoli Storage Manager will work in heterogeneous environments including Windows, UNIX/Linux, OS/400, and z/OS platforms, and with mission-critical applications such as DB/2, Oracle, Lotus Domino, Exchange, SAP, and many more. The book introduces storage management software by explaining the concepts, architecture, and systems management features of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager and showing available complementary products. It will help you design solutions to protect data holdings from losses ranging from those caused by user error to complete site disasters.

This IBM Redbook describes and explains the features and functions of the IBM TotalStorage Open Software Family, which is designed to help you simplify your storage infrastructure, optimize storage utilization, and adapt quickly and dynamically to the on demand world. The book introduces storage virtualization, on-demand solutions, and storage management software by explaining the concepts, architecture, and systems management features of the IBM TotalStorage Open Software Family and showing available complementary products. It will help you design solutions to protect data holdings from losses ranging from those caused by user error to complete site disasters. This easy-to-follow guide gives a broad understanding of the IBM TotalStorage Open Software Family software, the key technologies to know, and the solutions available to protect your business. It offers understanding of how the IBM TotalStorage Open Software Family solutions will work in heterogeneous environments including Windows, UNIX/AIX/Linux, OS/400, and z/OS platforms, and with such mission-critical applications as DB/2, Oracle, Lotus Domino, Exchange, mySAP.com, and many more.

Disasters, by their very nature, cannot be predicted, in either their intensity, timing, or effects. However, all enterprises can and should prepare for whatever might happen in order to protect themselves against loss of data or, worse, their entire business. It is too late to start preparing after a disaster occurs. This IBM Redbook will help you protect against a disaster - taking you step by step through the planning stages, with templates for sample documents. It explores the role that IBM Tivoli Storage Manager plays in disaster protection and recovery, from both the client and server side. Plus, it describes basic sample procedures for bare metal recovery of some popular operating systems, such as Windows 2000, AIX, Solaris, and Linux. This book is written for any computing professional who is concerned about protecting their data and enterprise from disaster. It assumes you have basic knowledge of storage technologies and products, in particular, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager.

This IBM Redbook is designed to assist Oracle Database administrators and system/storage administrators with Oracle backup solutions using Tivoli Storage Manager V4.1. The primary tool we used for backup and recovery is Tivoli Data Protection (TDP) for Oracle V1.1, and the book covers setup and configuration of TDP as well as day-to-day management examples. Operating environments covered by the project are AIX, Sun Solaris, and Microsoft Windows 2000. We provide an overview of relational database management systems and how to plan for protecting them. This book will help you install, tailor, and configure Tivoli Storage Manager and Tivoli Data Protection for Oracle on UNIX and Microsoft Windows 2000 platforms in order to accomplish backup and restore of Oracle8i databases. RMAN commands and setup are covered in detail, and emphasis is placed on practical recovery scenarios. Also featured are new solutions utilizing Tivoli's hardware integration features for IBM's ESS intelligent storage subsystem, as well as an update on using TDP for Oracle V2.2 new features. Note: This redbook replaces relevant sections of the earlier redbook, Using ADSM to Back Up Databases, SG24-4335-03, by updating and re-branding the content of that book.