Fundamentals of IBM Spectrum Protect

The IBM Spectrum Protect (formerly Tivoli Storage Manager or TSM) suite of products includes the Spectrum Protect Server and many add-on products and components for providing enterprise class data protection and disaster recovery. In this Fundamentals of Spectrum Protect course we provide a simple, easy-to-understand introduction to many of the components and technologies associated  with Spectrum Protect along with a series of videos to help better understand the content.

Day 1

• Unit 1: Concepts and Components

• Unit 2: User Interface Introduction

 > Exercise Part 1: Administrative Command Line > Exercise 1 Basic Queries > Exercise 2 Use the help command > Exercise 3 Start a Console Mode window for monitoring > Exercise 4 Open the administrative command line using the dsmadmc command

 > Exercise Part 2: Operations Center > Exercise 5 Navigating the Operations Center > Exercise 6 Use the Operations Center Command Builder

> Exercise Part 3: Backup-archive client > Exercise 7 Backup-archive command line introduction > Exercise 8 Backup-archive GUI introduction > Exercise 9 Examine current options in the backup-archive GUI > Exercise 10 Restore and replace files > Exercise 11 Archive selected files > Exercise 12 Retrieve files from archive

Day 2

• Unit 3: Daily Operations

 > Exercise 1 Perform an incremental, complete backup > Exercise 2 Perform a selective backup with client-side compression  > Exercise 3 Send archive data to the storage pools > Exercise 4 Define a container storage pool > Exercise 5 Change policy to send backup data to container storage pool  > Exercise 6 Back up files to DEDUPCONTAINER using inline deduplication  > Exercise 7 Perform storage pool backups  > Exercise 8 Perform a database backup  > Exercise 9 Review the configuration of the database and recovery log > Exercise 10 Back up the database again using multiple streams and compression  > Exercise 11 Initiate a storage pool migration  > Exercise 12 Review the maintenance tasks in the Operations Center

• Unit 4: Reporting and Monitoring

 > Exercise 1 Review security notification > Exercise 2 Configure a mail server for reports > Exercise 3 Review the default reports > Exercise 4 Create a new report and work with report templates > Exercise 5 Review and assign alerts in the Operations Center > Exercise 6 Review the default maintenance tasks in the Operations Center > Exercise 7 Use the Operations Center to review the completed maintenance