Using Tsaif To Back Up And Restore The Ifolder Store; Understanding Tsaif - Novell IFOLDER 3.7 - ADMINISTRATION Administration Manual

9.7 Using TSAIF to Back Up and Restore the
iFolder Store
The Target Service Agent (TSA) for Novell iFolder 3.7 supports the back up of the iFolder store.
Section 9.7.1, "Understanding TSAIF," on page 107
Section 9.7.2, "Syntax," on page 108
Section 9.7.3, "iFolder Path Options," on page 108
Section 9.7.4, "iFolder Path Examples," on page 110
Section 9.7.5, "SMSConfig Options," on page 110
Section 9.7.6, "TSAIF and SMSConfig Examples," on page 111
Section 9.7.7, "NBackup Options," on page 111
Section 9.7.8, "TSAIF and NBackup Examples," on page 112
Section 9.7.9, "Additional Information," on page 113

9.7.1 Understanding TSAIF

iFolder TSA
Novell Storage Management Services (SMS) is an API framework that backup applications
consume to provide a complete backup solution. The SMS framework is implemented by two main
components: The Storage Management Data Requester and the Target Service Agent.
The TSA provides an abstraction of a particular backup target. The TSA uses native interfaces to
read target data and transforms it to a continuous stream of data objects. The data objects are
formatted in the ECMA standard System Independent Data Format (SIDF).
The TSA for iFolder (TSAIF) provides an implementation of the SMS API for an iFolder store.
Backup applications, such as nbackup(1), can make use of its features by writing to the SMS API.
iFolder and Simias
iFolder is built upon Simias technology. Simias is a general-purpose object repository that provides
a foundation for building collaborative solutions. A Simias Collection store contains Collection
objects. At a minimum, a Simias Collection store contains a Local Database Collection and one or
more Domain Collections. The Local Database Collection controls access to the physical storage of
the Collection store on the file system. A Domain Collection contains a list of members in a given
domain. For example, a Domain might contain all the members from a given LDAP directory. Each
Collection is owned by exactly one Domain member.
An iFolder is a type of Simias Collection that has a root directory on the file system. Each file or
subdirectory in the iFolder's root directory has a corresponding FileNode or DirNode in the
Collection. An iFolder store is a Simias Collection store that contains one or more iFolders and
includes the directories and files associated with the iFolders.
For more information on the iFolder and Simias technologies, see the iFolder Project at
www.ifolder.com (http://www.ifolder.com).
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