[ Thanks to Scott
Courtney for this link. ]
IBM recently released Linux S/390 client drivers for their
Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) network-based backup system. Tivoli
Storage Manager, formerly known as ADSTAR Distributed Storage
Manager, is a client/server tool that allows a centralized mass
storage server to provide backup and recovery services to multiple
client machines. An S/390 mainframe can support network-based
backups and archives for hundreds of PCs running Linux, Windows, or
OS/2, and for workstations running AIX or several other UNIX
variants.
TSM is a sophisticated backup manager that uses a back-end
relational database on the server to automatically merge new
incremental backups into an existing full backup, so that files
which have not changed are never resent across the network. Data
can be restored either from the most current backup or from
previous versions. The client portion of the system has both
command line and graphical interfaces, and there is a web-based
interface that uses Java. The clients can be set up to allow server
polling, so that end users do not have to remember to run daily or
weekly backups.