About backup options

BMC AMI Recovery Manager enables you to set backup options at the subsystem and object set levels.

We recommend that you establish backup option values for the subsystem before you specify backup option values for an object set. If you choose not to set any backup options, BMC AMI Recovery Manager uses default options, most of which are the default values of the specified backup utility. For more information, see BMC-AMI-Recovery-Manager-backup-and-recovery-options.

Related topic

Backing-up-object-sets


Tip

For performance reasons, you should use the ARMBGRP batch program to set options for object sets containing more than a few hundred objects. For more information about ARMBGRP, see ARMBGRP—Object set creation and maintenance.

BMC AMI Recovery Manager supports the backup utilities in the following table.

Backup utility

Type of copies available

BMC AMI Copy for Db2 

Full or incremental image copies of both table spaces and indexes—BMC AMI Copy can automatically decide which based on a threshold. (BMC AMI Copy and BMC AMI Recover are required for incremental index copies)

Instant Snapshots (with SUF or XBM)

Encrypted copies (Recovery Management for Db2 solution)

DSNUTILB COPY

Full or incremental image copies

DFSMS copies

BMC AMI Recover for Db2 (OUTCOPY)

Copies to a prior point in time

Online Consistent Copy

Online consistent copies (Recovery Management for Db2 solution required)

Important

BMC AMI Recovery Manager will not display an option on a panel if your version of the selected utility does not support it. BMC AMI Recovery Manager checks the xxxVRSN load module from the STEPLIB. If the xxxVRSN module is not found for a product, BMC AMI Recovery Manager does not produce an informational message. If the xxxVRSN is found, BMC AMI Recovery Manager produces an informational message if the version is not supported.


 

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