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TSM for your Enterprise Backup
September 24, 2019

TSM for your Enterprise Backup

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Tivoli Storage Manager

IT department uses TSM for daily backups and restores. It also handles DR replication from a Fastback appliance located elsewhere.
  • The concept of "forever incremental" is very appealing to my understanding of how backups should happen.
  • The backups are tuned for fast restores and they sure are fast.
  • The media management is very good.
  • It may have a significant learning curve for people unfamiliar CLI.
  • The database can become corrupt and will require repairs. I have not had a case when I lost any data or inventory though.
  • Simple, care free backups, especially if you do not use tapes and do not have to manage those.
  • Very fast restores as the libraries have everything available online.
  • Ease of locating the necessary data to restore

Do you think IBM Storage Protect delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with IBM Storage Protect's feature set?

Yes

Did IBM Storage Protect live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of IBM Storage Protect go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy IBM Storage Protect again?

Yes

Large scale installations with traditional client agent backups. This does not suit pure virtual environments. Having said that, TSM does have another product specifically for the virtual environment. We have not used it.
Another positive point is that the clients can be configured to have separate individual storage which is important when considering GDPR compliance.

IBM Storage Protect Feature Ratings

Data Center Backup
10.0
Universal recovery
10
Instant recovery
10
Recovery verification
Not Rated
Business application protection
Not Rated
Multiple backup destinations
10
Incremental backup identification
10
Backup to the cloud
Not Rated
Deduplication and file compression
10
Snapshots
Not Rated
Flexible deployment
Not Rated
Management dashboard
Not Rated
Platform support
10
Retention options
10
Encryption
10

Tivoli Storage Manager Support

We had a 3rd party support which was very good.