Backup Recovery and Media Services

BRMS application client to TSM

You can use BRMS to save low-volume user data on distributed IBM i systems to any Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) server. You can do this by using a BRMS component called the BRMS Application Client, which is provided with the base BRMS product.

The BRMS Application Client has the look and feel of BRMS and IBM i. It is not a TSM Backup or Archive client. There is little difference in the way BRMS saves objects to TSM servers and the way it saves objects to media. A TSM server is just another device that BRMS uses for your save and restore operations.

The BRMS Application Client communicates with TSM servers through a special set of APIs that are referred to as the Tivoli Storage Manager Application Programming Interface for IBM i (TSM APIs).

The BRMS Application Client provides the following benefits for one or more systems at offsite locations:

• You can use BRMS policies to save non-system objects across a network for storage on any server in the TSM family.
• You can reduce the amount of media that is required at the offsite location, thereby increasing the level of backup automation.
• You can reduce the amount of time that is spent managing media.
• You can minimize device purchases on the offsite system.

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