Release notes for Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client Version 7.1

IBM® Tivoli® Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client V7.1 is available. Read this document to find important installation information. You can also learn about product updates, compatibility issues, limitations, and known problems.

Description
Announcement
Compatibility with earlier versions
System requirements
Installing the backup-archive client
Updates, limitations, and known problems

Description

Tivoli Storage Manager is a client/server licensed product that provides storage management services in a multiplatform computer environment. You can use the backup-archive client to back up and archive files from workstations or file servers to storage, and restore and retrieve backup versions and archive copies of files to local workstations.

For a list of the APARs that are fixed in this release, see http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21648007.

Announcement

The Tivoli Storage Manager V7.1 announcement is available at http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi. See the announcement for the following information:

Detailed product description, including a description of new functions
Product-positioning statement
Packaging and ordering details
International compatibility information

To search for the product announcement, complete the following steps:

Go to the product announcement website at http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi.
In the Search for field, enter the product identifier (PID) for your product. The PID for Tivoli Storage Manager is 5608-E01.
In the Information Type field, select Announcement letters, and click Search.
From the Search in list, select Product Number.
Optional: In the Refine Your Search pane on the left side of the window, select the country where you reside.
In the Sort by section, select Newest first.

Compatibility with earlier versions

For compatibility with earlier versions, see IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Server/Client Compatibility and Upgrade Considerations at http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21053218.

System requirements

For information about hardware and software compatibility, see the detailed system requirements document at the following web pages:

Apple Macintosh client requirements: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21053584
HP-UX Itanium client requirements: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21197146
IBM AIX® client requirements: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21052226
Linux on Power® systems client requirements: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21169963
Linux x86_64 client requirements: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21052223
Linux on System z® client requirements: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21066436
Microsoft Windows client requirements: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21197133
Oracle Solaris SPARC client requirements: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21052211

Installing the backup-archive client

If you download the product from IBM Passport Advantage®, follow the directions in the download document at http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?&uid=swg24035539.

For installation instructions, see Installing the Tivoli Storage Manager backup-archive clients (UNIX, Linux, and Windows) in the Tivoli Storage Manager information center.

Updates, limitations, and known problems

Documentation updates, limitations, and known problems are documented as technotes in the Support knowledge base at http://www.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/Overview/Software/Tivoli/Tivoli_Storage_Manager. As problems are discovered and resolved, IBM Software Support updates the knowledge base. By searching the knowledge base, you can find workarounds or solutions to problems.

Limitations and known problems

At the time of publication, the limitations and known problems are documented in the following technotes:

For AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Mac OS X, and Oracle Solaris operating systems, see http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21646949.
For Windows operating systems, see http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21646952.

Documentation updates

For information that was not available at the time of publication, documentation updates are available in the following tech docs:

For AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Mac OS X, and Oracle Solaris operating systems, see http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27039351.
For Windows operating systems, see http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?&uid=swg27039350.

Related information

For more information about reporting a problem to IBM Software Support, see Contacting IBM Software Support in the Tivoli Storage Manager information center.