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    Published on March 21, 2026

    Fundamentals of IBM Storage Protect

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    The IBM Storage Protect (formerly Tivoli Storage Manager or TSM) suite of products includes the Storage Protect Server and many add-on products and components for providing enterprise class data protection and disaster recovery. In this Fundamentals of Storage Protect course we provide a simple, easy-to-understand introduction to many of the components and technologies associated  with Storage Protect along with a series of videos to help better understand the content.  

    Fundamentals of IBM Storage Protect
    Table of contents
    1. Short Summary
    2. Modality
    3. Cost
    4. Publish date
    5. Retire date
    6. Duration
    7. Agenda
    8. Objectives
    9. Brand/Department
    10. Product
    11. Skill Level
    12. Key Topics
    13. Audience
    14. Labs
    15. Follow-on Courses
    Short Summary

    This course is intended for students who otherwise have had no prior experience with IBM Storage Protect and is designed as an introduction to IBM Storage Protect.

    Modality

    Self-paced

    Cost

    paid

    Amount

    200

    Publish Date

    January 15, 2020

    Retire Date

    December 30, 2026

    Duration

    16 hours

    Agenda

    Day 1

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    Unit 1: Concepts and Components

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    Unit 2: User Interface Introduction

    > Exercise Part 1: Administrative Command Line > Exercise 1 Basic Queries > Exercise 2 Use the help command > Exercise 3 Start a Console Mode window for monitoring > Exercise 4 Open the administrative command line using the dsmadmc command

    > Exercise Part 2: Operations Center > Exercise 5 Navigating the Operations Center > Exercise 6 Use the Operations Center Command Builder

    > Exercise Part 3: Backup-archive client > Exercise 7 Backup-archive command line introduction > Exercise 8 Backup-archive GUI introduction > Exercise 9 Examine current options in the backup-archive GUI > Exercise 10 Restore and replace files > Exercise 11 Archive selected files > Exercise 12 Retrieve files from archive

    Day 2

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    Unit 3: Daily Operations

    > Exercise 1 Perform an incremental, complete backup > Exercise 2 Perform a selective backup with client-side compression > Exercise 3 Send archive data to the storage pools > Exercise 4 Define a container storage pool > Exercise 5 Change policy to send backup data to container storage pool > Exercise 6 Back up files to DEDUPCONTAINER using inline deduplication > Exercise 7 Perform storage pool backups > Exercise 8 Perform a database backup > Exercise 9 Review the configuration of the database and recovery log > Exercise 10 Back up the database again using multiple streams and compression > Exercise 11 Initiate a storage pool migration > Exercise 12 Review the maintenance tasks in the Operations Center

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    Unit 4: Reporting and Monitoring

    > Exercise 1 Review security notification > Exercise 2 Configure a mail server for reports > Exercise 3 Review the default reports > Exercise 4 Create a new report and work with report templates > Exercise 5 Review and assign alerts in the Operations Center > Exercise 6 Review the default maintenance tasks in the Operations Center > Exercise 7 Use the Operations Center to review the completed maintenance


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    Objectives

    1. Understand the core data storage and protection concepts that IBM Storage Protect is based on

    2. Navigate the main IBM Storage Protect command line and GUI interfaces

    3. Perform basic data backups and differentiate between backup types, such as incremental backups and complete backups

    Brand/Department

    Storage

    Product

    IBM Storage Protect

    Skill Level

    Instructor: basic, Student: basic

    Key Topics

    TS101D, Storage Protect, SP, Protection, Back up, Archive, Storage Pools, Security, Compression, Maintenance, Container

    Audience
    • This course is intended for students who otherwise have had no prior experience with IBM Storage Protect.
    Labs

    Yes

    Follow-on Courses
    • TS629G