Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack for Workstations

Simplify the backup and recovery of valuable information on your employees’ personal computers

This centrally-managed solution reduces the risks of losing important information stored on thousands of personal computers across an entire enterprise.

  • Captures every new and changed file as it is saved to disk, automatically and continuously
  • Protects against file or system loss; point-in-time recovery protects against corruptions
  • Helps to meet corporate governance requirements by protecting important data distributed on personal computers
  • Minimizes the backup/recovery window and provides rapid disk-to-disk protection and recovery capabilities.
  • Optimizes recovery point objectives (RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO).
  • Provides central backup consolidation and retention through tight integration with IBM Tivoli Storage Manager.
  • Minimizes network bandwidth impact through scheduled transfers and policy based adaptive bandwidth throttling automatic network detection.
  • Data deduplication when sending data to Tivoli Storage Manager further reduces network traffic and storage capacity requirements.
  • Easy to implement and manage, it runs transparently in the background with a light footprint.
  • Centrally manages thousands of systems, including auto-discovery, pushing updates, configuring settings, initiate backups, and many other functions using Tivoli Integrated Portal (TIP).

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Client (Desktop/Laptop only)

Hardware requirements:
An Intel Pentium(R) III processor with:

- 500 MHZ CPU, or higher
- 384 MB RAM, or higher
- 100 MB free disk space (plus user configured amt of additional space for local file repository)

Software requirements:
The minimum hardware configuration for Windows workstations must be compatible with that stated by Microsoft for the respective operating systems.

- Microsoft Windows XP Professional, SP1, SP2, SP3 (x86-32)
- Microsoft Windows XP Professional with FDCC settings, SP1, SP2, SP3 (x86-32)
- Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate, Business, SP1, SP2 (x86-32)
- Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate ( x86-32, 64-bit support), MS Windows code signing
- Microsoft Windows Vista Basic, SP1, SP2 (x86-32)
- Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium, SP1, SP2 (x86-32)
- Microsoft Windows Vista Enterprise, SP1, SP2 (x86-32)
- Microsoft Windows Vista Enterprise with FDCC settings, SP1 (x86-32)
- Microsoft Windows 7 Starter Edition (x86-32)
- Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium (x86-64)

added to V6.1.1 and beyond:
- Microsoft Windows 7 Professional (x86-32)
- Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate (x86-32)

added to V6.1.2 and beyond:
- Microsoft Windows 7 Professional (64-bit)
- Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate (64-bit)
- Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium (32-bit)
- Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise (32 and 64-bit)

Supported Browsers
The Tivoli FastBack for Workstations Client GUI supports the following browsers:

- Microsoft/Internet Explorer, V7, V8
- Firefox/Mozilla, V3.5.3, 3.6

added to V6.1.3 and beyond:
- Microsoft/Internet Explorer, V9
- Firefox/Mozilla, V4.0.1

Central Administration Console

Hardware requirements:
An Intel Pentium(R) III processor with:

- 500 MHZ CPU, or higher
- 3 GB RAM, or higher
- 1GB free disk space

Software requirements:
The minimum hardware configuration for Windows servers must be compatible with that stated by Microsoft for the respective operating system.

- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard, SP1 (x86 32 & 64 bit)
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise, SP1 (x86 32 & 64 bit)
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Standard, SP1 (x86 32 & 64 bit)
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise, SP1 (x86 32 & 64 bit)

V6.1.3 and beyond:
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Standard R2 (x86-64)
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise R2 (x86-64)

Supported Browsers
The CAC supports the following browsers:

- Microsoft/Internet Explorer, V7, V8
- Firefox/Mozilla, V3.5.3, 3.6

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