IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, Version 7.1

Backing up data using the GUI

You can use Tivoli® Storage Manager to back up specific files, a group of files with similar names, or entire directories.

You can locate the files you want to back up by searching or filtering. Filtering displays only the files that match the filter criteria for your backup. Files that do not match the filter criteria do not display.

To perform a GUI backup, use the following steps:

Click Backup from the GUI main window. The Backup window appears.
Expand the directory tree by clicking the plus sign +. To display files in a folder, click the folder icon. To search or filter files, click the Search icon from the tool bar.
Click the selection box for the objects that you want to back up.
Select the type of backup from the pull down menu:
1. To run an incremental backup, select Incremental (complete).
2. To run an incremental backup by date, select Incremental (date only).
3. To run a selective backup, select Always backup.
4. To run an incremental backup without using the journal database, select Incremental (without journal). If you installed the journal engine service and it is running, then by default the incremental command automatically performs a journal-based backup on selected file systems which are being monitored by the journal engine service. This option lets you perform a traditional full incremental backup, instead of the default journal-based backup.
Click Backup. The Backup Task List window displays the backup processing status. When processing completes, the Backup Report window displays processing details.

The following are some items to consider when using the GUI to back up your data.

Tivoli Storage Manager uses management classes to determine how to manage your backups on the server. Every time you back up a file, the file is assigned a management class. The management class used is either a default selected for you, or one that you assign to the file using an include option in the include-exclude options list. Select Utilities → View Policy Information from the backup-archive client or Web client GUI to view the backup policies defined by the Tivoli Storage Manager server for your client node. Select Edit → Client Preferences from the backup-archive client or Web client GUI and select the Include-Exclude tab in the Preferences editor to display your include-exclude list.
To modify specific backup options, click the Options button. Any options you change are effective during the current session only.
To perform subsequent incremental backups, from the Tivoli Storage Manager main window, open the Actions menu and select Backup Domain.

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