Data mover feature

The data mover is a specific backup-archive client node that "moves" data from one system to another.

Overview

In the typical VMware environment, the data mover node is used to save virtual machine backups to a data center node.

For more information about the data mover, including information about environments with multiple data movers, see How Tivoli Storage Manager nodes are used in a virtual environment .

Accessing the data mover configuration files

You can configure the data mover from the Data Protection for VMware vSphere GUI or Data Protection for VMware vCloud GUI.

Windows operating systemsThe default installation directory is C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\baclient.

Linux operating systemsThe default installation directory is /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin.