Tivoli Storage Manager for System Backup and Recovery

IBM® Tivoli® Storage Manager for System Backup and Recovery delivers a flexible backup method for your AIX® systems

It offers a comprehensive system backup, restore, and reinstallation tool and can be executed from either the AIX command line or by using the System Management Interface Tool (SMIT) menu interface.

Protects critical data from equipment failure or environmental factors, and provides utilities to create backup scripts and schedules for easier task automation for businesses of any size
Enables the choice of several types of backups, including full system (installation image), volume group, file system, file or directory, and raw logical volume
Supports configuration of network ports to communicate through firewalls and Pass-thru support for all AIX operating system language locales
Allows for the storage of backup objects into an IBM Tivoli Storage Manager server, and can back up any non-rootvg data
Integrates network boot and install features in support of RS/6000 SP systems, and provides Offline Mirror Backup options to enable simultaneous user and system access to active copies of data