BRMS and FlashCopy
In times where business demands for ever rising availability levels on systems with a high workload, backup windows are closing fast. With Backup, Recovery and Media Services (BRMS) and FlashCopy, an independent ASP (IASP) can be saved without a diminishing effect on applications and disk performance. With PowerHA, FlashCopy management is done from the IBM i partition for ease of use.
This chapter provides information about how an IASP is suspended for a brief period, the FlashCopy is taken, and the BRMS setup is done.
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