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USTVAULT Overview

The FDR/Upstream vaulting facility (USTVAULT) automates the creation of secondary (“vault”) copies of your sequential disk and tape backup files. The vaulted copies will be placed on tape. Your tape management system can then optionally send these vaulted copies offsite, if required. If you have the FDR/Upstream data encryption feature licensed and enabled, you can use USTVAULT to create encrypted copies of some/all your “copy 1” backups.

There are several reasons why you may want to use USTVAULT to create secondary copies of your backups:

  • For onsite recovery: in case the primary backups are damaged or become unusable.
  • For disaster recovery: the secondary copies can be stored in an offsite vault for use in the event of a disaster.
  • For long-term retention: as described in “Creating long term retention backups” later in this section, the secondary copies are to be retained for much longer than the primary backups, without requiring additional space in the FDR/Upstream repository.
  • You can also use USTVAULT to create secondary copies of backups created under the client file migration facility

A single execution of USTVAULT can create vault copies for specific backup profiles, or for a group of backup profiles, if you choose. USTVAULT will only create vaulted copies going back to the last full backup.

If you have any merge backups in deferred status, these will be automatically bypassed since they are not yet complete. Once they have been completed by USTMERGE, they will be eligible for vaulting.

If a backup was flagged as “interrupted”, it will only be selected for vaulting if it is also flagged as “restartable”. If USTVAULT copies an interrupted backup, and that backup is later restarted, the next execution of USTVAULT which processes that backup profile will correctly copy the backup again, uncataloging the earlier copy.

USTVAULT keeps track of the backups that already have vaulted copies, and will, by default, only create secondary copies for those backups that have not yet been processed. However, the NOVCHK option allows USTVAULT to create vaulted copies for backups that do already have vaulted copies. This allows you to create extra copies of your backups for additional safety, or to create copies to be kept for a longer period. A “copy number” from 2 – 9 can be specified on the VAULT command to identify these additional vaulted copies

Warning

Important

USTVAULT can make vault copies of sequential disk backups and sequential tape backups. If you are vaulting tape backups, this may require mounting many input tapes during the vault process. If possible, incremental backups that are to be vaulted should be written to disk, then USTVAULT can be executed to create the vaulted copies on tape. Once USTVAULT has completed, the USTMIGRT utility can then be run to migrate the primary copies of the backups from disk to tape. For obvious reasons, USTVAULT cannot operate concurrently with USTMIGRT on the same GROUPID.

 

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