Integrating Backup Recovery and Media Services and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager on the IBM eServer iSeries Server

8 Integrating Backup Recovery and Media Services and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager

volumes in BRMS, although BRMS does not need to actually read or write to any of those

tapes.

BRMS does the mounting, demounting, and expiring of volumes on request from IBM Tivoli

Storage Manager.

Figure 1-1 shows the set of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager server and client products through

December 2003.

Figure 1-1 Summary of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager server and client products

For the latest on IBM Tivoli Storage Manager products, see:

http://www-3.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/storage-mgr/platforms.html

1.2 General considerations for backing up your iSeries data

Before you start setting up your backup and restore environment, you must thoroughly

understand why and when you back up your data, as well as what to back up. To help you

understand these concepts, see “Consideration before you begin” on page 370, which

contains several basic questions for you to answer.

1.2.1 Data in an iSeries server

There are two major classifications of data within the iSeries server, user data and system

data. Understanding the grouping of objects into these two data classifications is important in

understanding the scope and limitations when using BRMS or IBM Tivoli Storage Manager to

back up iSeries objects.

LINUX

Red Hat

SuSE

TurboLinux

SILICON

GRAPHICS

IRIX

NUMA-Q

DYNIX/PTX

BULL

DPX/2

300

B.O.S.

DPX/20

APPLE

Macintosh

DIGITAL

OpenVMS

(SSSI)

Tru64

HEWLETT-

PACKARD

HP-UX

MICROSOFT

Windows 98

Windows ME

Windows XP

Windows NT Server/WS

Windows 2000

Windows 2003

NOVELL

NetWare

SUN

Solaris

SunOS

Tape

Disk

Storage Hierarchy

Optical

z/VM

Linux

OS/400

z/OS

Solaris

HP-UX

AIX

Windows

2000 and

2003

Tivoi Storage

Manager

Servers

DB2

INFORMIX

LOTUS

DOMINO

MICROSOFT

Exchange

Server

SQL Server

ORACLE

SAP

R/3

SYBASE

(BMC)

NAS

NDMP

ITSM for Mail

Lotus Notes on AIX

Lotus Notes on Windows NT

Domino on AIX

Domino on Windows NT

Microsoft Exchange Server

ITSM for Databases

Microsoft SQL Server

Oracle Backup on AIX

Oracle Backup on HP-UX

Oracle Backup on Sun Solaris

Informix

IBM DB2 (included in DB2)

ITSM for ERP

Backup Restore Interface (BACKINT)

for Oracle

IBM CommonStore

Support for Informix, MS SQL Server,

DB2

AIX

OS/400

Linux zSeries

OpenEdition MVS

zOS

Linux pSeries

Linux iSeries

IBM

Tivoli Storage Manager Client Platforms

Supported Networks

APPC

IPX/SPX

Named pipes

Shared memory

TCP/IP

3270 emulation

ITSM for Hardware

IBM ESS

ITSM for Application Servers

Websphere Application Server

WebSphere

Application

Server

IBM ESS

DB2

DB2/R3

with

FlashCopy

NUMA-Q

DYNIX/PTX

TANDEM

Guardian

(ETI)