Upgrading the Windows client
You can upgrade an earlier version of the Tivoli® Storage Manager Windows backup-archive client to Version 7.1.3. Your previous configuration settings are preserved, where it is possible to do so. However, enhancements that are in the latest version of the client can deprecate or prohibit the use of options that were available in earlier versions of the client.
Before you begin
Wait for any in-progress backup-archive client tasks (backup, restore, archive, retrieve) to complete before you upgrade a client node.
About this task
To upgrade to the Version 7.1.3 Windows client, install the Version 7.1.3 Windows client; you do not need to uninstall previously installed client software first. The Version 7.1.3 client installation program preserves your current client options and settings (in dsm.opt), and it does not overwrite or delete the dsmerror.log, dsmsched.log, and dsmwebcl.log files, if you install the new client into the same directory that was used by the previous installation.
The Logical Volume Snapshot Agent (LVSA) component was deprecated in Tivoli Storage Manager Version 6.4. If you previously had LVSA configured as your snapshot provider, install the Version 7.1.3 client, and then configure it to use the Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) as the snapshot provider in the new installation. If LVSA was installed, your client reboots after the upgrade installation completes, to allow for the removal of LVSA entries from the registry.
Control panel display name | Command-line procedure |
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TSM Journal Service | net stop "tsm journal service" |
TSM Client Acceptor | net stop "tsm client acceptor" |
TSM Client Scheduler | net stop "tsm client scheduler" |
Remote Client Agent | net stop "tsm remote client agent" |
Perform the following steps to upgrade an earlier version of the Tivoli Storage Manager Windows backup-archive client to Version 7.1.3:
Procedure
What to do next
- snapshotcachelocation
- snapshotfsidleretries
- snapshotproviderimage
- snapshotproviderfs
- snapshotcachesize