Best Backup Practices of the Tivoli Storage Manager
Data storage is one of the prime needs for the IT sectors. The professionals have to deal with the huge amount of data every day and they are always storing them in their computers. There should be storage applications to store or backup the data. One such important software application is the Tivoli Storage Manager. This software is widely used in the IT sectors for storing data and information.
There are several aspects that should be considered while deploying the IBM TSM. Apart from the necessities that are common to most of the backup software products, such as the network bandwidth, Input/ Output performance, tape throughout, some are TSM-specific. The following are the important services that are accepted regarding some of the infrastructure designing and implementation objects specific to the Tivoli Storage Manager.
Effective Disk-Pool Sizing
TSM uses the disk storage pools to store the backup data and later the data migrates to the tape. Among all the other functions, the service allows simultaneous backup sessions without the requirement of the large quantity of tape devices or resorting to the data interleaving of multiplexing on the tape. The disk pools should be large enough for holding the data of a single night that is moved towards the disk. Otherwise, the information migration to the tape might trigger automatically instead of the interference of the other storing processes. The high performance IBM backup Tivoli Storage Manager is very effective to store and manage the data.
Tape Sub-System Sizing
The tape sub system should be sized for holding the stored data and information to be on-site. Lack of capability will surely force the expulsion of the tapes to make spaces for the empty scratch files and data. This service is often interfering by the TSM’s automotive data management systems. The storing capacity should consider the onsite backup data, growth and the scratch tapes. The tape library must be constructed with the sufficient tape storing devices to store all the direct back ups to the tape, storage pool back ups for the offsite, data migration to the tapes and tape recovery and requests for the given daily data storage cycle.
Storage Pool Collocation
Collocation term is referred to the TSM’s ability for storing the data from the different systems though they are located on different tapes. It is just opposite of the method of multiplexing. But, collocation can results in deprived media utilization when the clients are backing up smaller systems, and that is seriously putting an impact on the capacity of the library.
The user-friendly IBM Tivoli Data Storage Manager has several backup agents that integrate with the various applications for performing hot backups. It is one of the effective and easy and widely used in IT sectors.