This section discusses additional information to consider
when backing up data.
Open files
Some files on your system might be in use when you try
to back them up. These are called open files because they are
locked by an application for its exclusive use.
Ambiguous file space names in file specifications
If you have two or more file spaces such that one file
space name is the same as the beginning of another file space name,
then an ambiguity exists when you try to restore, retrieve, query,
or do another operation that requires the file space name as part
of the file specification.
Management classes Tivoli Storage Manager uses
management classes to determine how to manage your backups on the
server.
Deleted file systems
When a file system or drive has been deleted, or it is
no longer backed up by Tivoli Storage
Manager, the existing backup versions for each file are managed according
to the following policy attributes: Number of days to keep inactive
backup versions, and number of days to keep the last backup version
(if there is no active version).
Removable media backup Tivoli Storage Manager backs
up your removable media (such as tapes, cartridges or diskettes) based
on the drive label, not the drive letter.
Fixed drives Tivoli Storage Manager can
back up your fixed drives even if they do not have a label, including
drive aliases created with the DOS subst command. This applies
to both the drive alias and the underlying physical drive, because
the alias name and the physical drive label are the same.
NTFS and ReFS file spaces
When you back up files on NTFS or ReFS partitions, Tivoli Storage Manager also
backs up file security information and file descriptors.
Universal Naming Convention names
A Universal Naming Convention (UNC) name is a network resource
name for a share point on a workstation.