Fbserver
Use the fbserver option with the backup fastback or archive fastback commands.
The fbserver option specifies the short host name of the Tivoli® Storage Manager FastBack server workstation that owns the repository specified by the fbreposlocation option. For a DR Hub, the fbserver option specifies the short name of the FastBack server workstation whose branch repository the Tivoli Storage Manager backup-archive client is connecting to.
The fbserver option is a key to retrieving the necessary user credentials required to connect to the FastBack server repository or the DR Hub server repository for mount processing.
Supported Clients
This option is valid for Linux x86_64 clients.
This option is valid for all Windows clients.
Options File
None. You can specify this option only on the command line.
None. You can specify this option only on the command line. The server can also define or override this option.
Parameters
- server_name
- Specifies the short hostname of the machine on which a FastBack server is installed.
Examples
- Command line:
- The backup-archive client is installed on a Linux proxy
client machine. Use this command to archive all FastBack volumes for all Linux FastBack clients that are defined for
FastBack policy1:
The repository location is required. If you do not provide the repository location, the command will fail.dsmc archive fastback -fbpolicyname=Policy1 -fbserver=myfbserver -fbreposlocation=myfbserver@WORKGROUP
The FastBack server name, -myfbserver, is the short host name of the FastBack server where the repository is located.
- Command line:
- The repository, rep_server1, is
located on
a FastBack disaster hub, myFbDrHub.
dsmc archive fastback -fbpolicyname="Policy 1" -fbserver=myFbDrHub -fbreposlocation=\\myFbDrHub\rep_server1
The FastBack server name, -myFbDrHub is the short host name of the FastBack disaster recovery hub server where the repository is located
The -fbreposlocation specifies the location of the repository. The repository location is required. If you do not provide the repository location, the command fails.
-fbserver should point to the short host name of the FastBack DR hub in this case.
- Command line:
- Archive all volumes
protected by FastBack policy named policy1
from the FastBack server named basil:
dsmc archive fastback -Fbpolicyname=policy1 -FBServer=basil -ARCHMC="my_tsm_mgmt_class" -fbreposlocation=basil@WORKGROUP
- Command line:
- The Tivoli Storage
Manager backup-archive
client is running on a FastBack server machine whose short name is
myFbServer:
dsmc archive fastback -fbpolicyname=Policy1 -fbserver=myFbServer
- Command line:
- The Tivoli Storage
Manager backup-archive
client is running on a Tivoli Storage
Manager FastBack
DR Hub machine and is connecting to a FastBack Server branch repository
branch1. The short host name of the FastBack
server is myFbServer:
dsmc archive fastback -fbpolicyname=Policy1 -fbserver=myFbServer -fbbranch=branch1
- Command line:
- The Tivoli Storage
Manager Backup-archive
client is running on a dedicated proxy machine and is connecting to
a remote FastBack server repository. The FastBack server is installed
on a machine whose short name is myFbServerMachine:
dsmc archive fastback -fbpolicyname=Policy1 -fbserver=myFbServerMachine -fbreposlocation=\\myFbServerMachine.company.com\Rep
- Command line:
- The Tivoli Storage
Manager backup-archive client is running
on a dedicated proxy machine and is connecting to a remote Tivoli Storage
Manager FastBack repository on a FastBack DR
Hub. The FastBack Server with branch ID branch1 is installed on a
machine whose short name is
myFbServer.
dsmc backup fastback -fbpolicyname=Policy1 -fbserver=myFbServer -fbreposlocation=\\myDrHubMachine.company.com\Rep -fbbranch=branch1