IBM DS8900F and IBM Z Synergy DS8900F: Release 9.3 and z/OS 2.5

Data protection and backup

This chapter describes FRBACKUP and other backup solutions that use FlashCopy with Db2 and IMS, adding to the list of synergy items between IBM Z server and DS8000 storage systems.

This chapter includes the following topics:

•“Introduction” on page 34

•“FRBACKUP” on page 35

•“Use of IBM FlashCopy with Db2 and IMS” on page 41

3.1 Introduction

Traditional data protection and backup typically rely on a point-in-time copy, which allows restoring data only from when that copy or backup was created. As the name implies, continuous ...