Recovering by using BMC AMI Recover

In the following scenario, BMC AMI Recover uses Instant Snapshot technology to restore the data sets. To use this method, you must have the copies and the spaces to be recovered stored on storage devices that support data set snapshots.

To recover Online Consistent Copies by using BMC AMI Recover

1. At the point in time you select as a fallback point, use Online Consistent Copy to make consistent Instant Snapshots of the source objects.

   This process has practically no effect on the source objects, so you can do it at any time of the day. Because Instant Snapshots are hardware copies, it takes only a few seconds to make each Instant Snapshot, regardless of the size of the space being copied.

2. If you need to recover to the fallback point, use the BMC RECOVER command. You can specify options such as TOCOPY LASTCOPY:

   RECOVER...TOCOPY LASTCOPY

   Important

   If you want to restore a copy to a different Db2 subsystem or you want to recover to a copy that is no longer in BMCXCOPY, you would use the INCOPY option on the RECOVER statement. For more information, see Using consistent copies with BMC AMI Recover to migrate objects.

   For an example, see Example 7: Recovering an Instant Snapshot using BMC AMI Recover.