IBM Spectrum Protect was previously known as Tivoli Storage Manager or TSM. It is a data protection product that enables reliable, cost-effective backups and fast recovery for virtual, physical and cloud environments of all sizes.
Recovery Without Vendor
IBM Spectrum Protects / TSM data can be recovered using Tranzman, Tranzman can restore data from without needing the original backup software. Tranzman can read disk and tape media, importing the meta-data into its own internal index.
Recovery of, files, folders, application data and databases is possible, and Tranzman supports the following IBM Spectrum Protects / TSM data types.
- *nix Filesystems
- Windows Filesystems
- MS Exchange
- MSSQL
- VMWare
- DB2
- OpenVMS
- Oracle Databases
- Lotus Domino
- OpenVMS
- SAP R3
- SAP HANA
- PostgreSQL
Cross Vendor Transitioning
Only Filesystem workloads, can be exported and converted, this is due to the way that most backup jobs are scheduled from the client and not from the server.
IBM Spectrum Protects / TSM can be migrated from. Tranzman can read the following data types
- *nix Filesystems
- Windows Filesystems
- MS Exchange
- MSSQL
- VMWare
- DB2
- NDMP (3way only)
- Oracle Databases
- Lotus Domino
- OpenVMS
- SAP R3
- SAP HANA
- PostgreSQL (converted to files)
Currently there are no planns to addIBM Spectrum Protects / TSM to the list of products Tranzman can migrate to, this doesn't mean that Tranzman can't help to transition to IBM Spectrum Protects / TSM , just that the solution would not be integrated into IBM Spectrum Protects / TSM. Tranzman can still be used to index, and recovery other origins data using the "Recovery Without Vendor" option allowing for legacy backup products to be decomissioned.