Um....they both use tapes?

That's about where it stops....

SysBack/6000 uses a shell wrapper to the backupvg command, just like
mksysb does.  It allows you to build bootable, installable, and
recoverable system images of the root volume group, and additional
volume groups as you have tape space.  Very nice, but a true shotgun
approach.

TSM only backs up what changes (if you use incrementals), and is not
easily a bare-metal-restore solution.  But, it is faster, and being
centralized, more readily managed.

That's the basics of it -- more details if you wanna hear them from a
former sales engineer...*oh, to forget my sordid past*

-drs

David Stabler, CATE/AIX, CNCE
Senior Systems Analyst

>>> Ken_Sedlacek AT KYRUS DOT COM 10/10/02 11:03AM >>>
For TSM AIX only.

I just recently saw the IBM web site on AIX SysBack System Backup and
Recovery program.

Can someone who either knows both, or uses both of them, point out the
differences/similarities between AIX SysBack and AIX TSM??

TIA.


Ken Sedlacek
AIX/TSM/UNIX Administrator
ksedlacek AT kyrus DOT com

IBM Certified Specialist: RS/6000 AIX v4.3 Support
IBM Certified Specialist: RS/6000 SP & PSSP 3
Tivoli Certified Consultant - Tivoli Storage Manager v4.1