The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) backup driver enables performing volume backups to a TSM server. The TSM client should be installed and configured on the machine running the cinder-backup service. Please refer to the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client Installation and User's Guide for details on installing the TSM client. To enable the IBM TSM backup driver, include the following option in cinder.conf: backup_driver=cinder.backup.driver.tsm The following configuration options are available for the TSM backup driver. Here is an example of the default options for the TSM backup driver. backup_tsm_volume_prefix = backup backup_tsm_password = password backup_tsm_compression = True