In preparing for migration of all IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center (TPC) components to the
newest level, the implementing person installed an IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM)
Backup/Archive client on the TPC Server and configured it to run standard file backups of the local
filesystems. What is the best practice backup method for TPC?

A.
online backup using TSM API for Databases to save TPC configuration

B.
online backup using the built-in TPC Backup Utility which uses the API to send data to a TSM
server

C.
offline backup of TPC to TSM without pausing any servers to archive the current state of the
TPC Server

D.
offline backup of TPC to TSM with stopping the data, the device servers, and the DB2 database
prior to copying the files

Explanation: