IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows Backup-Archive Clients ...

The list of startable system state and system services components are dynamic and
can change depending on service pack and operating system features installed.
Tivoli Storage Manager allows for the dynamic discovery and back up of these
components.
You must be a member of the Administrators or Backup Operators group to back
up system state information.
Important:
1. Your Windows client must be connected to a Tivoli Storage Manager Version
5.2.0 or higher server.
To back up a system state object using the command line:
1. On the command line, use the backup systemstate command to back up all
system state or system services components as a single object.
2. Use the query systemstate command to display information about a backup of
the system state on the Tivoli Storage Manager server.
To back up a system state object using the GUI:
1. Click Backup from the GUI main window. The Backup window appears.
2. Expand the directory tree by clicking the plus sign (+). To display files in a
folder, click the folder icon.
3. Locate the system state node in the directory tree. You can expand the system
state node to display the components.
4. Click the selection box next to the system state node to back up the entire
system state object. You can back up the system state node only as a single
entity because of dependencies among the system state components. By default,
all components are selected; you cannot back up individual system state
components.
5. Click Backup. The Backup Task List window displays the backup processing
status. When processing completes, the Backup Report window displays
processing details.
System and boot files are backed up as a group only if one of the members of the
group (one of the files) changes. If the files have not changed since the last backup,
the system and boot files are not redundantly backed up.
You can use the include.systemstate option to assign management classes for
back up of the system state. The default is to bind the system state object to the
default management class.
You can use the exclude.systemservice option in your client options file (dsm.opt)
to exclude individual system services components from backup. Input can be the
keyword or component name to be excluded from backup.
You can use the domain option to exclude the entire system state from domain
incremental backup processing.
The system dllcache directory is now included in the boot partition backup of
Windows 2003 and Windows Vista systems. When the dllcache files are not
available for restore of Windows 2003 or Windows Vista, system recovery might
require availability of the operating system installation media. By backing up the
dllcache directory, you can avoid the need for installation media during system
restores.
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