IBM Spectrum Protect Admin case studies
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IBM Spectrum Protect (formerly Tivoli Storage Manager, now also branded IBM Storage Protect) is IBM's enterprise backup and recovery platform. The administrator credential targets storage and backup engineers who install the server, register and configure clients, design policy domains and management classes, manage storage pools and volumes, run backup, archive, restore and retrieve operations, automate with schedules, and troubleshoot a production environment. The IBM Spectrum Protect Admin case studies are 5 cases and about 3,137 words.
1Sizing a New Spectrum Protect Server for Deduplicated Disk and Offsite Protection
Your company is replacing an aging backup server with IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1 on a new Linux x86 64 host. The environment has 220 file and database clients, 80 TB of initial backup data, and about 8 TB of changed data per night.
758 words, about 4 min2Designing Management Classes for a Seven-Year Finance Audit
An audit finding requires a new policy domain for a finance application running on 12 Linux nodes. The application writes about 600 GB into 4 million small files, and the business needs restore points every four hours, 90 days of daily versions, and 30 days of deleted-file recovery.
656 words, about 3 min3Container Pool Saturation and Tape Copy Backlog
A Spectrum Protect server uses a 60 TB directory-container pool as the only primary pool for 300 nodes. Server-side deduplication averages 3.5:1, and nightly ingestion is about 6 TB logical.
597 words, about 3 min4Staggering 1,200 Client Schedules and Admin Jobs
A Spectrum Protect domain serves 1,200 nodes through one server. The backup window is 20:00 to 02:00.
551 words, about 3 min5Least-Privilege Administration and Encryption for HR Data
A Spectrum Protect environment supports 450 nodes and 35 administrators. The help desk has 12 staff who reset node passwords and check whether backups ran.
575 words, about 3 min