ABR Overview | Features | Benefits | User Experiences | Summary of Modifications | User Stories |
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• Incremental Backup.
• Archive to DASD and tape.
• Duplicate copies of backups and archive data sets.
• Comprehensive reporting with FDREPORT.
• Compatible with IBM's System Managed Storage (SMS).

• Significantly faster and utilizes less system resources than any other MVS DASD management product.
• Ease of recovery from last incremental to the most current full volume.
• At disaster recovery site able to recover from incremental backup as many volumes as tape drives available.

• Incremental backup completes in 70% less elapsed time than DFSMShsm.
• We merged data centers. The number of DASD volumes tripled. We switched to ABR and are able to complete the backups in the same amount of time.
• The unthinkable occurred one day - before our full volume backups we were forced to evacuate our computer center. Within hours we were able to recover hundreds of DASD volumes at our disaster site from ABR incremental backups. ABR recovered the volumes as if we had done full backups the night before.
• Reduced our DASD cost significantly.
• ABR has the ability to create and track two copies of an archive dataset, making ABR easy-to-use for disaster recovery.
• ABR's control file used 200 cylinders as compared to 1,500 cylinders used by DFHSM. More importantly, the I/O activity to the control files was reduced by over 90%.