Information Management Configuring External Storage for Archive and Backup

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1 Information Management Configuring External Storage for Archive and Backup InfoSphere Guardium Technical Document

2 Contents 1.FTP AND SCP TSM AND EMC CENTERA...3 2

3 1. FTP and SCP FTP and SCP external storage options are available out of the box. Simply provide host name or IP address, the directory where archives or backups are to be stored, and authentication information. FTP and SCP option in Data Archive: FTP and SCP option in System Backup: 3

4 2. TSM and EMC Centera As seen in the screen shots in the previous section, option for archiving or backing up to TSM (Tivoli Storage Manager) or EMC Centera are not available by default. These storage options have to be turned on through the CLI command line. 1. Log in to Guardium appliance's CLI command line. 2. Run the command show storage-system. This will display the availability of each external storage system for archive and backup processes: Note that only SCP and FTP are available for both archiving and backing up, and that TSM and CENTERA are not available for either. 3. Following is the syntax of the command used to turn on (or off) TSM and CENTERA option for archive and backups: store storage-system <tsm centera> <backup archive> <on off> To turn on TSM option for archive and backup run the following two commands: store storage-system tsm archive on store storage-system tsm backup on To turn on CENTERA option for archve and backup run the following two command: store storage-system centera backup on store storage-system centera archive on 4. Run the command show storage-system once again to see the updated result: 4

5 5. (TSM only) You will require to import the TSM configuration file to complete the setup for TSM. This is done using the import tsm config command: import tsm config dsm.sys dsm.opt ]> - User account to access the file on the specified host. /path/[ dsm.sys dsm.opt ] - Full path filename of the file to import You will always need to upload a dsm.sys file, and if that file includes multiple servername sections, you will also need to upload a dsm.opt file. For information about how to create these files, check with your company s TSM administrator. 6. TSM and EMC CENTERA option are now available. TSM option: EMC CENTERA option. Note that you will require to upload the PEA file and provide the retention duration: 5

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