Why TSM Manager Is Better Than Traditional Backup

Backup application is a necessity for commercial areas. To keep all the information in a proper manner, a powerful backup tool is a necessity for all high-end commercial areas. Tivoli Storage Manager is of the most powerful backup tool. This flexible tool was made by a famous organization named IBM. It gives great competition to other tradition backup software.

This tool came into existence in early 90s. TSM was introduced as ADSTAR Distributed Storage Manager (ADSM) and was built based on the concept of mainframe data storage management.  It is very important to note that the ADSM emerged from another backup tool which was based on network called as Workstation Data Safe Facility. The basic difference that makes this software different from other tools is numerous. Let us have a look why this is more powerful as a backup tool. 

Progressive Backup:

The design of this powerful backup tool makes it different from others. The concept behind designing this software is that after the data is backed up by TSM, unless any change occurs, it will not again repeat the process. Efficiency of TSM server lies in reducing data transfer across networks. This helps to reduce congestion in the network and helps to work smoothly. 

To achieve the objective, this powerful tool maintains a database. It copies all the data that helps it to understand whether a file is already backed up or not. 

Groups Files under ‘Archives: 

To make it easy for the users, this backup tool helps to group the files in packages. The packages are known as archives that contain all the required information like descriptor and time. This part of TSM also contains an auto delete option. After a given period of time specified by the user, the files get deleted automatically. Each of these packages remains for a specific period and is unique. 

Allows TSM Management, Restore and Backup:

With this flexible software comes a Command Line Interface (CLI). This is the part that does all the action such as backup, reporting, monitoring, restoring and TSM management. This interface is found on TSM client and server. 

Offers Selective Backup System:

Some users do not need a full backup. For them, this is a very efficient tool. To make the work easier, this tool also offers selective backup system. The additional advantage in this is that even if there is no change in the files, you can create a backup. 

Makes use of Backup Object Versioning:

To maintain the data these software make use of a backup version. File backup is purely based on media and not on the version of the file. Each backup file has an inactive and active version. For an active version, it never gets expired

TSM Manager is a very flexible tool and is used due to its numerous advantages. The kind of work done by this backup tool can surely keep all the data intact.