This manual describes how to set up and use the IBM® Tivoli® Storage Manager to backup Adaptive Server ® Enterprise databases. Use this manual in conjunction with the Adaptive Server System Administration Guide and the relevant Tivoli Storage Manager documentation.
Adaptive Server support for the Tivoli Storage Manager is a licensed option.
The Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) is a third-party client/server program that provides storage management services to the licensed user. The Adaptive Server Backup Server supports tape drives and disk files as backup media. TSM works with Backup Server to enable a greater variety of backup media. You can store Adaptive Server backups on any backup media supported by TSM.
Adaptive Server handles the dump and load of databases and transactions to and from TSM; TSM handles storage and retrieval from the storage media.
TSM provides storage management services, but you can administer all your Adaptive Server backup and restore operations, including queries for backup objects and deletion of backup objects, from Backup Server.
Figure 1-1 shows how Adaptive Server works with TSM to back up databases and transactions.
Figure 1-1: Integration of Adaptive Server, Backup Server, and TSM
The Adaptive Server and TSM integrated architecture includes Adaptive Server, Backup Server, the TSM client, the TSM server, and the TSM client API. The TSM client API enables the client application to call TSM functions.
The Sybase® interface with the TSM API provides I/O routines that allow Backup Server to communicate with TSM. When dump or load commands are executed, Backup Server dynamically loads this API module, which in turn loads a shared library supplied by the TSM client API component.
