Backing up data using the GUI

You can use the backup-archive client GUI to back up specific files, a group of files with similar names, or entire directories.

About this task

You can locate the files that 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:

Procedure

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 toolbar.
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 that are being monitored by the journal engine service. This option performs 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.

Results

The following are some items to consider when you use 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 that is used is either a default that is 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 that are 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 that 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.
The web client GUI cannot browse network resources to perform a backup. No shares are listed if you expand the Network branch. It is possible to backup a network resource from the web client as long as the entire file is processed. To do this, the filesystem is specified using the domain option in dsm.opt. E.g. domain all-local \\server\share. To complete the backup, select Backup Domain from the Action menu. This processes all the filesystems that are specified with the domain option. Alternatively, you can use the GUI Client to perform the backup.