
290 Understanding the IBM TotalStorage Open Software Family
Figure 5-30 Three-way pull backup
Offline Mirror Backup function
SysBack provides a function to split AIX mirrors and back up the inactive copies.
This enables database users to have minimal downtime, because it is only
required to halt the database while the mirrors are being split. After the backup
completes, SysBack automatically resynchronizes the stale partitions while the
database is active.
Initiator
(server)
Backup System
(client)
3-way Pull Backup
The Initiator (server) initiates the backup on the Backup
System (client), and then the Backup System sends its
backup data to the Data ...