Optical volume backup

 

This concept describes the methods that you can use to back up optical data from one optical volume to another optical volume or tape.

Included in this topic is information on defining your backup strategy, your backup options, and using the backup commands.

• Defining a backup strategy
  This topic describes the step necessary to define a backup strategy.
• Duplicate Optical (DUPOPT) command
  The Duplicate Optical (DUPOPT) command creates a duplicate optical volume.
• Copy Optical (CPYOPT) command
  Use the Copy Optical (CPYOPT) command to copy optical files and directories between optical volumes.
• Save and restore commands
  The save (SAV) command can be used to create a backup of an optical volume image. The volume image is restored using the restore (RST) command.

 

Parent topic:

Optical storage