Tivoli® Storage Manager
offers another way to back up file systems. You can use this program
in combination with, or instead of, DFSMShsm for your backup needs related to
file systems. Tivoli Storage
Manager is a client/server based product and offers some additional
features that are not available from DFSMShsm.
- The z/OS UNIX System Services Client is available
to back up the individual files and directories within a file system.
- Tivoli Storage Manager
features a Central Scheduling component which can schedule z/OS UNIX client activity,
such as "Selective Backup" at defined intervals. For example, you
can back up the files in a specific subdirectory every four hours.
- Separate policies can be applied to a specific client node such
that individual directories and files within a given file system can
be effectively managed using retention, expiration and versioning
attributes. These sophisticated features of Tivoli Storage Manager used in conjunction
with a comprehensive INCLUDE/EXCLUDE list on the z/OS UNIX client platform
provide a great deal of control over what is backed up and how the
data is managed.
- End users can recover individual files that they have appropriate
authority access to.