Integrating Backup Recovery and Media Services and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager on the IBM eServer iSeries Server

IBM Backup Recovery and Media Services (BRMS) for the IBM eServer iSeries server is the strategic solution for managing backup, recovery, media, and storage in an iSeries-only environment. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager server and client products are the IBM tools that correspond to backup, recovery, media, and storage management functions in a heterogeneous (multiplatform) environment. IBM offers a unique integrated solution by combining the proven performance of BRMS on the iSeries server with the multiplatform capabilities of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager.

In a multiplatform environment that includes iSeries servers, you can use the two products independently of each other. However, by integrating the two products, you achieve a much more powerful set of capabilities to back up and recover your mission-critical data and applications.

Based on iSeries V5R2 BRMS and V5.2 of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, this IBM Redbook provides:

• An overview of BRMS and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager terminology, constructs, and capabilities
  
• Cookbook examples to get BRMS and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager server up and running on your iSeries server, as well as to set up your iSeries server as the BRMS Application Client to an IBM Tivoli Storage Manager server running on the iSeries server
  
• Troubleshooting guidance and tips for integrating BRMS and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager server on the iSeries server
  
• "As is" iSeries user programs and OS/400 commands to enable an iSeries system operator to manage integrated BRMS and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager server functions through a single user interface
  

Part 1. Overview
Chapter 1. Introduction to integration
Chapter 2. Backup Recovery and Media Services
Chapter 3. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager

Part 2. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager details
Chapter 4. Installing IBM Tivoli Storage Manager server for OS/400 PASE
Chapter 5. First steps: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager server basic configuration
Chapter 6. Next steps: Getting the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager server ready for production

Part 3. Backup Recovery Media Services details
Chapter 7. Installing Backup Recovery and Media Services
Chapter 8. Backup Recovery and Media Services up and running
Chapter 9. Setting up an iSeries server as the Backup Recovery and Media Services Application Client

Part 4. Advanced topics for Backup Recovery and Media Services, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
Chapter 10. Backup Recovery and Media Services movement of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager media
Chapter 11. Troubleshooting Backup Recovery and Media Services
Chapter 12. Troubleshooting IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for OS/400 PASE

Part 5. Appendixes
Appendix A. General backup and recovery considerations
Appendix B. Backup Recovery and Media Services reports
Appendix C. AIX administrative client in OS/400 PASE sample programs
Appendix D. Additional material

• PowerVM Virtualization on IBM System p: Introduction and Configuration Fourth Edition, SG24-7940-03
• Backup Recovery and Media Services for OS/400: A Practical Approach, SG24-4840-01
• TCP/IP Tutorial and Technical Overview, GG24-3376-07

Publish Date
29 December 2003

Last Update
30 December 2003

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Author(s)

Jim Cook is a Senior Software Engineer at the ITSO, Rochester Center. He leads teams that produce iSeries Announcement presentation sets that are maintained on the iSeries and support Web sites and presented at ITSO iSeries Forums internationally. Jim also produces IBM Redbooks about OS/400 topics.

• Jim Cook

Dan Johansson is an Senior Technical Support Specialist working for IBM in Sweden. He has over 30 years of computer experience, including 25 years working within IBM midrange computer systems. He was part of the 1403 team sent to Germany to transfer IBM printer manufacturing to Sweden. Dan has assisted and led several BRMS installations both with and without IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. He is currently providing customers with overall iSeries assistance at the Support Center. He has a degree in mechanical engineering.

• Dan Johansson

Steve Mann is an iSeries Advisory I/T Specialist working for IBM Switzerland. He has 14 years experience in working with the AS/400 and iSeries servers. He is both an IBM Certified Solutions Expert for iSeries and a Certified Tivoli Storage Manager consultant. His areas of expertise include logical partitioning planning and implementation, system management, BRMS, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, and system recovery. He has extensive experience with both IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for OS/400 Portable Application Solutions Environment (PASE) and BRMS, providing planning and implementations services for customers. He coauthored the IBM Redbook LPAR Configuration and Management: Working with IBM eServer iSeries Logical Partitions, SG24-6251.

• Steve Mann

Edelgard Schittko is an iSeries Advisory I/T Specialist working for iSeries Technical Sales Support in IBM Germany. She has 12 years of experience in working with the AS/400 and iSeries in midrange customer and large customer environments. She has been with IBM for over 13 years, working with BRMS since 1994. Her areas of expertise include iSeries and Storage Area Network, iSeries and tape libraries, and iSeries backup and recovery with and without BRMS. Edelgard coauthored the first edition of the redbook Backup, Recovery, and Media Services for OS/400: A Practical Approach, SG24-4840. She holds a degree in mathematics from Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany.

• Edelgard Schittko

Bradley Smoley is a Staff Software Engineer in Rochester, MN. He has over six years of experience in the save and restore and BRMS field. He holds a degree in business computer information systems from Saint Cloud State University, in MN. His areas of expertise include BRMS, integrated file system (IFS), save and restore, program temporary fixes (PTFs), and installation. He has written articles about BRMS and general save and restore topics for iSeries Newsletter and iSeries Magazine.

• Bradley Smoley

ISBN

073849903x

IBM Form Number
SG24-7031-00

Number of pages
438