This is not new at all. At least I have it in v4.1 and it is quoted in the
redbooks for v3.7 clients.
$ lslpp -L tivoli.tsm\*
tivoli.tsm.client.image.aix43.32bit
                           4.1.3.0    C    TSM Client - IMAGE Backup Client

The main goal of this is to backup raw (disk) devices. And raw devices can
mean many things - RDBMS tablespaces/dbspaces/transaction logs, device of a
filesystem with bunch of small files (if unmount-backup-mount would be
better than tar/zip on similar size filesystem) or even disk with very
strange/rare/unknown application data format.

Zlatko Krastev
IT Consultant





Lawrence Clark <Larry_Clark AT THRUWAY.STATE.NY DOT US> on 29.11.2001 16:15:07
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Subject:        4.2.1 IMAGE client

Hi:
I am upgrading the AIX TSM clients to 4.2.1 and there appears to be a new
fileset. Anyone care to say what this is used for?:
    tivoli.tsm.client.image.aix43.32bit 4.2.1.0 # TSM Client - IMAGE Backup
Client