IBM® Tivoli® Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client V7.1 is available. Read this document to find important installation information. You can also learn about product updates, compatibility issues, limitations, and known problems.
Tivoli Storage Manager is a client/server licensed product that provides storage management services in a multiplatform computer environment. You can use the backup-archive client to back up and archive files from workstations or file servers to storage, and restore and retrieve backup versions and archive copies of files to local workstations.
For a list of the APARs that are fixed in this release, see http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21648007.
For compatibility with earlier versions, see IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Server/Client Compatibility and Upgrade Considerations at http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21053218.
If you download the product from IBM Passport Advantage®, follow the directions in the download document at http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?&uid=swg24035539.
For installation instructions, see Installing the Tivoli Storage Manager backup-archive clients (UNIX, Linux, and Windows) in the Tivoli Storage Manager information center.
Documentation updates, limitations, and known problems are documented as technotes in the Support knowledge base at http://www.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/Overview/Software/Tivoli/Tivoli_Storage_Manager. As problems are discovered and resolved, IBM Software Support updates the knowledge base. By searching the knowledge base, you can find workarounds or solutions to problems.