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The clients and servers, as well as the client node information may be displayed on the
of the
application. The application will constantly monitor the status of the clients and servers, and the icons on the
screen will represent whether or not the system or device is available.
Additional terms are commonly used in this document and in the application:
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Backup Profiles
- Any number of backup profiles may be created, which will contain the backup
defaults to be used when performing a backup job. This prevents the need to answer the same
questions repeatedly when configuring backup jobs. Select this link for detailed information on adding
or removing a
.
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Backup Jobs
- A backup job will contain all the information needed to perform a backup, including the
client(s) to backup and the server to backup to. A
backup profile
will be assigned to the job, which will
provide most of the common backup defaults. The information in the profile, however, may be
customized for each job. A backup job is identified by a
Job ID
and may be scheduled to run only upon
demand, only once at a specific date and time, or scheduled to run on a regular basis. A backup job
may contain one or more clients. If multiple clients are included in a single job, the data for all clients is
referenced by the same backup ID. Select this link for additional information on creating, scheduling
and running
.
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Job Queues
- The SBAdmin application provides a queuing system that manages multiple backup
jobs, and can prevent too many backups from writing to the same server at the same time. A queue is
defined for each server for which a backup job is scheduled. Backup jobs are added to the queues
when they are
. The queues may be displayed in the main screen of the application, providing an
easy glance at the queue contents and the status of queued jobs, and action buttons for manipulating
the queued jobs. The jobs may be started, stopped, removed from the queue or placed on hold.
Running jobs may be monitored, displaying the backup progress and/or the backup output messages.
Select this link for more detailed information on
and how to manipulate backup jobs in
the queue.
The SBAdmin System Backup
This backup contains the operating system and optionally all user data. User data may be only files in mounted
filesystems, or may also contain raw data found in logical volumes (
AIX/Linux), partitions (Linux) or meta-disks
(Linux/Solaris), disk slices or ZFS volumes (
Solaris). It is possible to reinstall the entire system from a System
Backup, or even use the backup of one client to install another. Select files, directories, logical volumes and
volumes groups, and even raw data may be restored from a System Backup. For information the system
installation process, refer to the
SBAdmin System Recovery Guide
.
AIX: The system backup contains the rootvg volume group, and may optionally contain some or all of the other
volume groups on the system. If the backup is performed to
tape, then this tape is also configured to boot to the
System Installation process.
SBAdmin and TSM Integration
While SBAdmin Network and Workstation Editions provide various levels of backups to local and remote media
(tape and disk), the SBAdmin TSM Edition focuses on what TSM customers need most - a full-system backup
which can be used for complete system recovery, cloning and hardware migration. This backup can be written
directly to, and restored directly from, a TSM server. And SBAdmin manages the TSM backups, including the
backup retention and deletion. In addition, client backups can be written to
local tape on each client. This
provides the ability to keep a separate (non-TSM) system backup of any client, including the TSM server
system.