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IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Express

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Express uses a subset of the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Extended Edition product, a technology which has been in the market for over 10 years. Some features and functions that have been inherited from the enterprise product include:

  • Calendar-based scheduling
  • Collocation for file data stored on disk
  • Compressed backups
  • Multi-session backup/restore
  • Health monitor
  • Progressive incremental backups

And many innovative advances have been developed specifically for this product, including:

  • Install to first backup in one hour
  • First steps (how to)
  • Easy-to-use administrative interface
  • Wizard-based restores
  • Ability to stack multiple clients on the same media copy
  • Automatic device detection

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Express can help you to protect your organization's data from failures and other errors by storing backup data, in a hierarchy of offline storage. It uses Web-based management, intelligent data move-and-store techniques, and wide-ranging policy-based automation, that work together to help increase data protection, and potentially decrease time and administration costs.

Complimentary products, which require Tivoli Express as a prerequisite

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Express for Microsoft Exchange provides complete integration with Microsoft Exchange APIs by offering you:

  • Centralized online backups (full, copy, incremental, differential, and database copy) of Exchange Server databases and transaction logs to Tivoli Storage Manager server storage
  • Automatic expiration and version control by policy
  • Automated transaction log file management
  • Windows™ GUI

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Express for Microsoft SQL allows users to perform online backups of the Microsoft SQL databases to Tivoli Storage Manager Express offering:

  • Full and transaction log backup support
  • Multiple versions of your SQL database and transaction logs
  • GUI and command line interfaces to give you point-and-click ease
  • Support for Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 and SQL Server 2000
  • Differential backup/restore of SQL databases
  • Backup/restore of individual file groups and individual database files
  • Restore to a standby SQL server
  • Restore to a different SQL server or to different physical file names

Relationship between Tivoli Storage Manager Express and IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Express can integrate with IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection (CDP) for Files V2.1.3. IBM Tivoli CDP for Files is a real-time, continuous, data protection solution. IBM Tivoli CDP for Files can back up your most important files the moment they change (real time). These real-time changes can be saved on your local notebook or workstation, as well as on a remote file server. Recommended deployment of the two complementary solutions:

  • Tivoli CDP for Files can provide continuous, real-time workstation and notebook data protection to a remote file server which can then be backed up using Tivoli Storage Manager Express.
  • During the week, use Tivoli CDP for Files for your real-time workstation and notebook data protection. Then, at the end of each week, use IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Express to automatically backup your remotely stored Tivoli CDP for Files data.

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