Control-M for Backup is an application plug-in that connects to a NetBackup or IBM Tivoli Service Manager (TSM) backup client and enables you to define backup jobs. Control-M for Backup simplifies the process of defining, monitoring, and troubleshooting backup jobs as well as reducing manual scripts and typing errors.
Control-M for Backup enables you to do the following job definition actions:
Define an incremental or full backup
Select the required backup policy from the list of policies that are already defined in your backup application, instead of manually typing a script per job (NetBackup)
Perform a search (with wild cards) on the list of policies that might contain hundreds and more policies (NetBackup)
Define backup jobs for a group of hosts (NetBackup)
Automatically generate a job for backup clients which were added into existing policy (NetBackup)
Control-M for Backup enables you to do the following job monitoring actions:
View native and configurable backup job output including readable error codes
View backup job status
Kill backup jobs
Restart failed jobs on rerun (NetBackup)
Control-M for Backup jobs are integrated with other Control-M jobs into a single scheduling environment, which enables you to do the following:
Integrate Backup jobs with other Control-M jobs into a single scheduling environment, as described in Planning.
Introduce all Control-M capabilities to Backup, including advanced scheduling criteria, complex dependencies, quantitative and control resources, and AutoEdit variables, as described in Planning.