Release notes for Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client Version 7.1
IBM® Tivoli® Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client V7.1 is available. Read this document to find important installation information. You can also learn about product updates, compatibility issues, limitations, and known problems.
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Description
Tivoli Storage Manager is a client/server licensed product that provides storage management services in a multiplatform computer environment. You can use the backup-archive client to back up and archive files from workstations or file servers to storage, and restore and retrieve backup versions and archive copies of files to local workstations.
For a list of the APARs that are fixed in this release, see http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21648007.
Announcement
- Detailed product description, including a description of new functions
- Product-positioning statement
- Packaging and ordering details
- International compatibility information
- Go to the product announcement website at http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi.
- In the Search for field, enter the product identifier (PID) for your product. The PID for Tivoli Storage Manager is 5608-E01.
- In the Information Type field, select Announcement letters, and click Search.
- From the Search in list, select Product Number.
- Optional: In the Refine Your Search pane on the left side of the window, select the country where you reside.
- In the Sort by section, select Newest first.
Compatibility with earlier versions
For compatibility with earlier versions, see IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Server/Client Compatibility and Upgrade Considerations at http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21053218.
System requirements
- Apple Macintosh client requirements
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21053584
- HP-UX Itanium client requirements
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21197146
- IBM AIX® client requirements
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21052226
- Linux on Power® systems client requirements
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21169963
- Linux x86_64 client requirements
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21052223
- Linux on System z® client requirements
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21066436
- Microsoft Windows client requirements
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21197133
- Oracle Solaris SPARC client requirements
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21052211
Installing the backup-archive client
If you download the product from IBM Passport Advantage®, follow the directions in the download document at http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?&uid=swg24035539.
For installation instructions, see Installing the Tivoli Storage Manager backup-archive clients (UNIX, Linux, and Windows) in IBM Knowledge Center.
Updates, limitations, and known problems
Documentation updates, limitations, and known problems are documented as technotes in the Support knowledge base at http://www.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/Overview/Software/Tivoli/Tivoli_Storage_Manager. As problems are discovered and resolved, IBM Software Support updates the knowledge base. By searching the knowledge base, you can find workarounds or solutions to problems.
- Limitations and known problems
- At the time of publication, the limitations and known problems
are documented in the following technotes:
- For AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Mac OS X, and Oracle Solaris operating systems, see http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21646949.
- For Windows operating systems, see http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21646952.
- Documentation updates
- For information that was not available at the time of publication,
documentation updates are available in the following tech docs:
- For AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Mac OS X, and Oracle Solaris operating systems, see http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27039351.
- For Windows operating systems, see http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?&uid=swg27039350.