Tivoli® Storage Manager backup-archive client version 7.1.1 contains many new features and changes.
Support for Solaris x86_64 is reintroduced- Backup-archive clients can now be installed and run on Solaris
x86_64 and Solaris SPARC systems. Software and hardware requirements
for all supported versions of Tivoli Storage Manager Oracle Solaris clients are provided on
the IBM® support portal. To view
the requirements, see the following IBM® support pages:
- Solaris SPARC Client Requirements, at http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21052211
- Solaris x86/x86_64 Client Requirements, at http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21232956
The references in this document that previously referred only to SPARC were altered so they now refer to either platform.
Windows Backup-archive
client and API support for Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1- New Windows Backup-Archive
Client and API support that is introduced for Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1.
For more information, see http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21197133.
- Enhanced support for Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines
- Enhanced support for Microsoft Hyper-V configurations is provided. You must be licensed to use Tivoli Storage
Manager for Virtual Environments: Data Protection for Microsoft Hyper-V to use the enhancements. These enhancements apply only to Windows clients in Hyper-V Windows Server 2012 or 2012 R2
environments. The enhancements provide the following capabilities:
- More efficient backups and restores.
- You can use incremental-forever backup modes to back up Hyper-V
virtual machines. Specifically, you can use either of the following
modes:
- Incremental-forever-incremental mode, which shortens backup times by backing up only the blocks of a virtual machine’s disks that changed since the last backup.
- Incremental-forever-full mode, which backs up all the used disk blocks on a virtual machine.
- You can also now use two client options (mbobjrefreshthresh or mbpctrefreshthresh) to optimize the storage of virtual machine backups in the Tivoli Storage Manager database.
- Parallel backups are possible, by using the vmmaxparallel option.
- For more information about these options:
- Other commands and options for Hyper-V virtual machines.
- More backup-archive client commands and options were modified
for use during backup and restore operations for Hyper-V virtual machines.
You must be licensed to use Tivoli Storage
Manager for Virtual Environments: Data Protection for Microsoft Hyper-V to use these enhancements. For additional information:
- File-level recovery for Hyper-V virtual machines.
- As in earlier versions, you can use the backup-archive client
to restore entire virtual machines. You can now also recover individual
files for a virtual machine, by using the Tivoli Storage
Manager recovery agent. File-level recovery requires a Tivoli Storage
Manager for Virtual Environments: Data Protection for Microsoft Hyper-V license.
- Restore a Hyper-V virtual machine to an alternative path or host.
- You can use the backup-archive client that is installed on a Hyper-V
host to restore backed-up virtual machines. You can restore them to
the same host and location that they occupied before they were backed
up, or you can restore them to a different Hyper-V host. The virtual
machine configuration must be compatible with the alternative Hyper-V
host operating system and configuration.
- Protection for Hyper-V virtual machines on remote file shares.
- You can now back up and restore Hyper-V guests that exist on a
remote file share. The file share must be on a Windows Server 2012, or newer, Windows Server operating system.
- AES 256-bit encryption added as an available encryption type in the backup-archive client and the API.
- AES 256-bit encryption added as an available encryption type in the backup-archive client and the API. AES 256-bit encryption is used to encrypt data that is sent to the Tivoli Storage Manager server. AES-256 encryption is used as a more secure algorithm for data encryption, which can be used to encrypt data that you back up, archive, restore, or retrieve.
- New client option to lock virtual machine snapshots so they cannot
be expired.
- The vmexpireprotect can be used to lock snapshots
on the server. When locked, a snapshot cannot be expired if another
snapshot is added to the snapshot sequence. This option can be used
during instant restore and instant access operations, for VMware virtual
machines, or when you perform file-level restore operations for Microsoft
Hyper-V virtual machines by using the Tivoli Storage
Manager recovery agent. For a description of the option and its settings, see Vmexpireprotect.
This option is available only if you have a license to use either Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments: Data Protection for VMware or Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments: Data Protection for Microsoft Hyper-V.
- Added option to disable security protocols that are lower than TLS 1.2.
- In order to comply with new US federal requirements for new cryptographic standards, the ability to restrict SSL protocols to TLS 1.2 or above is available. If you want to disable security protocols that are lower than TLS 1.2, add the SSLDISABLELEGACYtls yes option to the client options file or select Require TLS 1.2 or above in the backup-archive client GUI. Selecting this check box can prevent spoofing attacks by malicious programs that accept lower-level protocol connections even if the Tivoli Storage Manager server does not.