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For those who are not familiar. TSM Fastback is incremental for ever block based backup / disaster recovery (DR) solution. It is very suitable for environments very you need fast recovery times (RTO). It is standalone product but normally it will be integrated with tape based backup products like TSM or Symantec products.

TSM Fastback V6.1 should available for download 18th December. Linux support for Suse and RedHat enterprise version has been adeed. Fastback backup repository will support data deduplication. However if you have existing Fastback repository you cannot upgrade that for V6.1 – you need to create need repository for deduplication support. There is also integrated management policies between TSM and TSM Fastback.

They also announcent TSM Fastback for workstations which is basically rebranded Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for files with enhanced centralized management.

Read more from IBM Announcement letter