We have all heard the phrase “time is money”. But, when is time more important than money? The answer is during recovery of your data after some catastrophic event.
IBM Tivoli Storage Management (TSM) has been reducing recovery time, without compromising backup time, from its inception; and continues through its most recent product releases.
In comparison, traditional backup methodologies attempt to conserve backup time by using periodic full backups combined with more frequent incremental or differential backups. This approach makes restores more complex and time consuming as users must first restore the most recent full backup, then restore subsequent incremental backups to recover to the current point in time. TSM’s progressive incremental backup technology makes one initial full backup, but all subsequent backups are incremental. When combined with TSM’s advanced data management techniques, this enables fast full restores without the complexity of managing multiple backup sets. Users get the speed and recoverability benefits of a daily full backup in addition to the reduced network traffic and data storage requirements of incremental backups.
Data Backup and Recovery 