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ABR Overview | Features
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Product Brochure
If you wish to recover data 7 days, 7 months or 7 years from now…let Innovation
show you a much better way.
ABR, the DASD Management component of FDR, automates the backup of your disk
volumes. Datasets are automatically backed up when updated. At some interval,
usually once a week, full volume backups are taken. ABR can recover individual
datasets or full volumes from current or older backups. TSO/ISPF panels give
the end user easy access to the DASD Management reports and backup/restore functions.
Whether it is for a single dataset, an entire volume or in the event of a disaster,
the recovery of the entire data center—ABR will provide you with the fastest
recovery.
Higher capacity DASD and increasing usage of DASD present today's storage administrator
with new backup and recovery challenges. ABR is designed to meet your needs today
and in the future as your DASD capacity grows.
ABR's space management can be run hourly, daily, weekly, etc. to move inactive
datasets to a less costly medium. Thresholds can be established on volumes so
that ABR space management can be invoked to maintain a certain level of free
space within the DASD storage pool. ABR allows you to archive data to disk and
tape simultaneously, therefore allowing you to immediately send a copy of data
offsite to satisfy your disaster recovery needs. Data is easily moved from migrated
DASD to tape for long-term retention. ABR also supports the SMS management class,
including support for expiration dates generated from management class attributes.
Archived datasets can automatically be restored when referenced by either a batch
job or a TSO user.
Application backup is a procedure for the backup and recovery of a selected set
of datasets usually belonging to one application system. Datasets are selected
through the catalog so the user does not need to know the location of the datasets.
Application backup is particularly suited to replace those backups that invoke
DFSMSdss, IEBGENER or IDCAMS REPRO. Innovation application backup is comparable
to IBM's ABARS under DFSMShsm except ABR application backup is significantly
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