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Data Sheet

IBM Tivoli Storage
FlashCopy Manager
Reduce the risk of data loss with integrated snapshot
management

Highlights
Protect data with an easy-to-install,
quick-to-deploy storage snapshot solution

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Improve application availability and
service levels with high-performance,
near-instant restore capabilities that help
reduce downtime

Simplify database cloning to support uses
outside of backup and recovery

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Use as a standalone solution or integrate
easily with IBM® Tivoli® Storage Manager,
IBM Metro Mirror and IBM Global Mirror

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Support a wide range of applications,
operating systems and storage devices

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Today, more business applications are operational 24 hours a day, which
means there is no tolerance for downtime or data loss. Traditional, daily
backups can no longer meet the data protection requirements for these
mission-critical systems. Organizations can’t afford to lose data created
between daily backups. Restores must be accomplished in minutes,
not hours.
Data volume snapshot technologies, such as IBM FlashCopy®, have
become popular because they enable more frequent backups and provide
near-instant restore capabilities. As snapshot usage increases, the new
challenge is managing snapshots so that restores can be performed without complexity. Snapshots need to be organized to enable straightforward
recovery under a range of scenarios.
Many storage systems are now equipped with volume snapshot tools;
however, these hardware-based snapshot technologies provide only
“crash-consistent” copies of data. Many business-critical applications,
including those that rely on relational databases, need an additional snapshot process to help ensure that all parts of a data transaction are f lushed
from memory and committed to disk prior to the snapshot. This can also
help create a usable, consistent copy of the data.
IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager delivers high levels of protection
for key applications and databases using integrated application-aware
snapshot backup and restore capabilities. Tivoli Storage FlashCopy
Manager is designed to easily integrate with numerous software and
storage system snapshot technologies to help create a high-performance,
low-impact solution for advanced data protection.