
260 Understanding the IBM TotalStorage Open Software Family
On the Windows 2000 client platform, a Logical Volume Storage Agent (LVSA)
has been introduced that is capable of taking a snapshot of the volume while it is
online. Optionally, only occupied blocks can be copied. If the snapshot option is
used (rather than static), then any blocks that change during the backup process
are first kept unaltered in an Original Block File. In this way, the client is able to
send a consistent image of the volume as it was at the start of the snapshot
process to the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager server.
API Client
The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager application pro ...