1. Platform Support

These pages contain information about, and links to, the latest OUCS packages of the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Client for Linux on Intel x86 and x86_64 platforms.

Up until version 6.2 the TSM client was 32-bit and could be used on x86 and x86_64 platforms. From version 6.3 IBM have made the client 64-bit so it runs on x86_64 platforms only. The 32-bit x86 platform is still supported but you must use the version 6.2 client. The OUCS packages make sure you have the appropriate version for your system installed.

The latest OUCS packages provide the IBM TSM Client Version 6 Release 3 Level 0.5 (referred to numerically as 6.3.0.5) for 64-bit systems and Version 6 Release 2 Level 4.1 (6.2.4.1) for 32-bit systems.

These versions of the client include native support for the following filesystem types: EXT2, EXT3, EXT4, JFS, XFS, NSS, ReiserFS, VxFS, and GPFS.

IBM officially supports (to varying degrees) the TSM Linux client on recent versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Oracle Enterprise Linux, Scientific Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, RedHat Desktop, Asianux, Mandriva, and Ubuntu. However in practice just about any recent Linux distribution (based on the 2.6 or 3 kernel) should be able to run the TSM backup/archive client software and we have successfully tested on a number of others. In certain cases it may not be possible to run the Java GUI client but even then the command line client can usually be installed and run.

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Sections in this document:

• 2. Prerequisites
• 3. Installing or Upgrading the TSM Client
• 4. Upgrading from TSM client version 5.3 or below
• 5. Configuration
• 6. Initial Backup using the TSM Client
• 7. Troubleshooting
• 8. Further Help