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36 lines
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# About
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TSMPIPE is a Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) or now known as Spectrum Protect client, that enables you to take data from STDIN and store that in TSM as a BACKUP or ARCHIVE object.
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By using this client, you dont need to do a dump to disk process, followed by using the Spectrum Protect Backup Archive Client. (So no more consuming disk space with old dumps!)
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Restoring data, is the reverse step, restoring direclty back to the application from Spectrum Protect.
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# Using
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In its simplest form, you can
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```cat myfile.ext | tsmpipe -c [MORE OPTIONS]```
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Or, where an application supports "dumping" to STDOUT, you can pipe that dump into TSMPIPE.
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```myappdump | tsmpipe -c [OPTIONS]```
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Getting data back is the reverse
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```tsmpipe -x [MORE OPTIONS] > myfile```
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Or, back to your application
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```tsmpipe -x [MORE OPTIONS] | myapp```
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This client can also calculate a digest while backuping up data (like MD5, SHA1, etc) - so that you can verify that the dump out of the application matches what goes into
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Spectrum Protect. For example:
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```
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myappdump > file
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md5sum file
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cat file | tsmpipe -cBs /example/ -f file -m md5
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tsmpipe -xBs /example/ -f file > file2
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md5sum file2
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```
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The MD5 calculation should match in all cases - including the MD5 printed by tsmpipe. See the build test script for more details.
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# Help
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For help, use tsmpipe -h
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To test that you can connect to TSM, use tsmpipe -i
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