Are you a user of one or more of the DASD Storage Subsystems?
EMC with TimeFinder
Hitachi with ShadowImage
IBM Shark DASD with FlashCopy
StorageTek with SnapShot Copy
Did you know that fdrinstant allows you to take non-disruptive backups of the offline volumes created by these advanced DASD systems?
That means...No More Problems With The Backup Window!
- No need to shut down CICS/TSO online services for several hours
while you take your backups...And no need to risk taking "fuzzy"
backups of open datasets!
- No more serious delays in the start up of your overnight batch work,
as you wait for your nightly backups to complete...And no more problems with backup "over runs" delaying the start up of online services!
- No need to worry about accommodating additional backups into
an already tight backup window...And no more sleepless nights, worrying about how the latest long-running application will swallow up another hour of your backup window!
Example of how to perform a non-disruptive full-volume backup
with FlashCopy:
Also Full Support for ABR Full Volume and Incremental Backups
FDRInstant simply takes full advantage of the latest advanced hardware features
in today's disk subsystem, such as TimeFinder/BCV, SnapShot Copy, ShadowImage
and FlashCopy.
Although their methods of implementation differ, all these hardware features share the same common ability to create duplicate volumes, while your applications (CICS, TSO, Batch, Etc.) continue to use the real data on the original online volumes.
Without FDRINSTANT, it is extremely difficult to take full advantage of the potential benefits provided by the presence of the offline duplicate volumes.
For example, in the diagram above, to backup the offline copy of MVS001 with standard backup utilities, you would need to bring it online to your MVS system. Before doing that, you would have to alter the name (volser) of the volume, because MVS does not allow two disks with the same volser to be online at the same time.
This then presents a further set of problems because renaming a volume destroys the complex connections between the VTOC/VVDS on the volume and the MVS ICF Cataloging system.
FDRINSTANT does not require the duplicate volume be brought online. It can access it across the S/390 channel while it remains offline to MVS, thus eliminating all of the aforementioned problems with duplicate volsers and the potential for VTOC/VVDS and catalog discrepancies!
on an INSTANT SOLUTION...FDRINSTANT or any other Innovation products call
973-890-7300,
e-mail sales@fdrinnovation.com or visit http://www.innovationdp.fdr.com
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