Product Description

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for System Backup and Recovery (also known as SysBack) provides system administrators and other system users with a simple, efficient way to back up and recover data from a command line or a SMIT menu-driven interface. SysBack lets you recover all or part of the system. SysBack is also flexible; you can install one system installation image to another system with either identical or different hardware configurations, called "cloning". SysBack can be used as a standalone product or in conjunction with a Tivoli Storage Manager server.

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for System Backup and Recovery delivers a flexible backup method for your AIX systems. It offers a comprehensive system backup, restore, and reinstallation tool and can be executed from either the AIX command line or by using the System Management Interface Tool (SMIT) menu interface.

• Protects critical data from equipment failure or environmental factors, and provides utilities to create backup scripts and schedules for easier task automation for businesses of any size.
• Enables the choice of several types of backups, including full system (installation image), volume group, file system, file or directory, and raw logical volume.
• Supports configuration of network ports to communicate through firewalls and Pass-thru support for all AIX operating system language locales.
• Allows for the storage of backup objects into an IBM Tivoli Storage Manager server, and can back up any non-rootvg data.
• Integrates network boot and install features in support of RS/6000 SP systems, and provides Offline Mirror Backup options to enable simultaneous user and system access to active copies of data.