Announcing...
FDRCLONE with FDRDRP utility
FDRCLONE
FDRCLONE provides a fast, easy-to-use facility to "clone" data to another
MVS system, either an LPAR or a separate system at your data center, or
a system at a disaster recovery location. Its input is your normal ABR
backups.
As CLONEd data sets are needed, they are dynamically restored from regular
ABR volume backups. Only data sets which are actually needed by batch
jobs or TSO users will be restored.
FDRDRP
FDRCLONE also includes FDRDRP (Disaster Recovery Program), a utility for
optimizing full-volume recovery from ABR volume backups (full volume and
incremental backups). FDRDRP recovers the complete image of each disk
volume like a jigsaw puzzle.
FDRDRP will reduce elapsed time by up to 80% compared to conventional
ABR full-volume reconstruction.
FDRINSTANT Support for ABR (Version 5.3 L31)
FDRINSTANT supports ABR for IBM RVA and StorageTek SVA (Shared Virtual
Array) with Snapshot Copy as well as EMC Symmetrix with TimeFinder. FDRINSTANT
enhances ABR Volume Backups, both full-volume (TYPE=FDR) and incremental
(TYPE=ABR) to use Snapshot or EMC TimeFinder by creating "instant" frozen
copies of the volumes to be backed up, and then moving the data to tape
without disrupting the primary volume.
FDRINSTANT Support for StorageTek HSDM
FDRINSTANT Version 5.3 L40 (available July, 1999) will automatically include
support for the StorageTek HSDM (High Speed Data Mover) feature which
can reduce backup elapsed time by 50%.
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FDRCLONE
Most disaster recovery test are of limited duration
(24 to 72 hours) and a significant part of this is spent in restoring
the operating system, databases and user data.
FDRCLONE, an option to ABR, will significantly reduce the
time required to restore your data by allowing you to restore only the
data needed, when it is needed.
FDRCLONE will allow testing to begin almost immediately. For example,
if you have 80 TSO volumes to restore at the disaster recovery site, but
only a small number of the data sets on these volumes are actually required
at the disaster site, you can CLONE these volumes from regular ABR
backup tapes. Then, when a job or a user references a cloned data set
and it has not been restored, the restore is automatically invoked. It
works the same as when ABR automatically recalls a data set if
you have migrated it because of inactivity and then reference it.
FDRCLONE users have been able to reduce significantly the amount
of disk space used at disaster recovery sites since only data sets actually
required are restored.
The FDRDRP program, part of FDRCLONE, allows you to recover
both the full volume and incremental backups like a jigsaw puzzle. Higher
capacity tape drives like IBM MAGSTAR and StorageTek 9840 hold the backup
of many disk volumes. Without FDRDRP, volume recovery requires
the backup tape to be mounted over and over for each disk volume. FDRDRP
will mount each tape a minimum number of times, reading pieces of the
backups of various disks from the tape volume before unloading it.
USER EXPERIENCE
A user takes full volume and incremental backups
of 14 volumes to MAGSTAR tape. All of the incremental backups for one
day are on one MAGSTAR tape. Without FDRDRP, restoring all 14 volumes
from a full volume backup and 3 days of incrementals required the 3 incremental
tapes to be mounted a total of 42 times. Now with FDRDRP, those
3 tapes are mounted just once each and the elapsed time to recover all
14 volumes has been reduced by 80%.
FDRINSTANT
FDRINSTANT supports the Snapshot option on all IBM RVAs and StorageTek
SVAs with the Snapshot option installed.
FDRINSTANT (V5.3 level 40 or above, available July 1999) supports the
StorageTek HSDM (High Speed Data Mover) option on all RVAs and SVAs with
that option installed. Data in an RVA/SVA is always stored in a compressed
format. HSDM allows FDR to read and write the compressed track images
directly, avoiding decompression overhead and reducing elapsed time for
both backup and restore by up to 60%.
Snapshot and HSDM can be used independently or together. When used together,
they enable you to take an instantaneous backup and reduce substantially
the time required to move that backup to tape. Although Snapshot and HSDM
are supported in FDR, FDRDSF and FDRABR backups, they require that you
be licensed for FDRINSTANT.
To invoke HSDM, specify the operand DCT=YES (DUMPCOMPRESSEDTRACK=YES)
on the FDR, DSF, or ABR DUMP statement. DCT=YES will be ignored for volumes
that are not on an RVA or SVA with HSDM installed.
No special operands are required to restore an HSDM backup. If restoring
to a volume not capable of HSDM, FDR will decompress the data before writing
it.
The two tests below are typical of the improvements
that you can expect.
Test 1--single disk
This test dumped a single 3390-2 RVA disk volume. There were 33100 tracks
dumped, totalling 1.4GB of data. When dumped with HSDM, FDR reported .56GB
of compressed data, which is a 2.5:1 compression ratio.
| Type |
Elapsed (sec) |
MB/sec |
I/O Connect |
| Magstar w/o HSDM |
250 |
5.6 |
329K |
| Magstar DCT=YES |
115 |
12.2 |
115K |
| HSDM Difference |
-54% |
+217% |
-65% |
Test 2--2 disks concurrently
This test dumped 2 3390-2 RVA disk volumes concurrently. In total, FDR dumped
60034 tracks, totalling 2.7GB of data. FDR reported .89GB of data after
compression, which is a 3:1 compression ratio.
| Type |
Elapsed (sec) |
MB/sec |
I/O Connect |
| Magstar w/o HSDM |
314 |
8.6 |
619K |
| Magstar DCT=YES |
167 |
16.2 |
194K |
| HSDM Difference |
-47% |
+188% |
-69% |
In the example below of incremental backup, SnapShot has been used to instantly
create a backup, and HSDM is invoked to backup the data in its compressed
format. The DCT=YES option is automatically ignored for volumes not on an
RVA or SVA enabled for HSDM. DUMP TYPE=ABR,SNAP=(USE,REL),DCT=YES MOUNT
VOLG=PROD
Latest FDR/UPSTREAM Enhancements
UNIX System Services
FDR/UPSTREAM for UNIX System Services supports most of the FDR/UPSTREAM
functions including
Centralized operation
Merge backups and a wide variety of data reduction techniques intended
to improve performance
Extensive reporting features
File Transfers
Migration of files based on file specification or last access date
Job execution
...and much, much more...
This support has most of the same characteristics as the other UNIX versions
of UPSTREAM. All backup and restore requests would be performed from UPSTREAM
MVS (using the ISPF panels), from a UNIX system that contains the full-screen
version of FDR/UPSTREAM, or from the new JAVA End-User Restore
interface. OS/390 version 2.6 or higher is required.
The End-User Interface (right) illustrates the ability to easily restore
one or several files from the HFS or UNIX System Services address space.
Lotus Notes
FDR/UPSTREAM now features enhanced storage management capabilities for
Lotus Notes databases by providing the ability to perform an ONLINE INCREMENTAL
backup of Lotus Notes databases as well as MIGRATION of old data notes.
Upstream is able to determine if just a single note was changed and will
only include those modified notes (records) in the backup! True incremental
processing and grooming (archiving) for Notes databases which decreases
backup times but still allows point in time recovery!
UDB Universal Server Support (DB2)
FDR/Upstream now provides support for IBM DB/2 Universal Server (UDB)
providing a full featured backup agent that can recreate the database
directly from FDR/UPSTREAM backups. Other features:
Online and offline backups
Tablespace level backups and restores
Supports full backups as a "Vendor DLL"
Supports user exit.
SAP certified FDR/UPSTREAM provides a SAP
certified backup agent for backing up
Oracle based SAP R/3 databases.
NLM Version of FDR/UPSTREAM Certified for Novell 5
FDR/UPSTREAM is Novell certified for NetWare v5
and is available as an NLM with enhanced performance.
Y2K COMPLIANT VERSIONS
The following versions are the minimum levels required for Y2K support
within the Innovation products.
| FDR, FDRDSF, SAR, FASTCPK and FDRREORG |
Version 5.2 L601 |
| FDRINSTANT |
Version 5.3 L20 |
| ABR and FDREPORT |
Version 5.3 L202 |
| IAM |
Version 6.3 L203 |
| FATS/FATAR |
Version 4.3 L104 |
| FDRSOS |
Version 5.3 L05 |
| FDR/UPSTREAM (PC and MVS) |
Version 3.0.0 |
NOTES:
1. FDRTCOPY users need to install FDR V5.3 L20 or higher. 2. ABR:
If you are running ABR or FDREPORT V5.3 levels 20 through 25, see the chart
below to determine the Innovation fixes you must apply for Y2K compliance:
| V5.3
LEVEL |
20 |
21 |
22 |
23 |
24 |
25 |
| P-53.2023 |
X |
X |
|
|
|
|
| P-53.2047 |
X |
X |
X |
|
|
|
| P-53.2086 |
X |
X |
X |
X |
X |
|
| P-53.2099 |
X |
X |
X |
X |
X |
|
| P-53.2114 |
X |
X |
X |
X |
X |
X |
3. IAM: Minimum level is Version 6.3 L20 with zaps P63.0254, P63.0275,
P63.0297 and P63.0307. See chart below to determine what fix you need to
install.
| IAM
V6.3 |
L20
THRU 26 |
L27 |
L28/29/30 |
| P-63.0254 |
X |
|
|
| P-63.0275 |
X |
X |
|
| P-63.0297 |
X |
X |
X |
| P-63.0307 |
X |
X |
X |
4. FATS: V4.3 L10 users need to install ZAPs P43.2083 and P43.2084.
FATS/FATAR Version 4.5: Levels 1 through 11 require ZAPs P45.0109 and P45.0123.
Level 12 requires ZAP P45.0123. Users of CA-TLMS, must install at least
FATS Version 4.6 L04.
FTP Access for Fixes
All of the fixes mentioned above can be obtained by register to use our
FTP server and download the fixes.
Recommendation: While
the above are the minimum levels required for Y2K compliance, we recommend
that users should install the currently available versions of the software.
Innovation Access Method (IAM) Version 7.0 will
be available 1st Qtr., 2000 (Beta testing 4th Qtr., 1999). IAM/AIX is
a cost option to IAM. This will bring IAM's outstanding performance and
data compression to those VSAM files that previously could not be converted
to IAM because they had an alternate index. The IAM Alternate Index Support
includes using standard IDCAMS utility functions to define the base cluster,
the alternate index, and the path(s), and to build the alternate index.
Application programs that build VSAM alternate indexes will be able to
build IAM alternate indexes without any program changes. As with VSAM,
each alternate index can be automatically maintained by IAM through the
use of UPGRADE sets.
UNIX SYSTEM SERVICES
FDR/UPSTREAM can now operate as a client in the
UNIX System Services space (formerly OpenEdition/MVS) on MVS. Similar
to the other UNIX client versions of FDR/UPSTREAM, it supports the following
UNIX System Services features:
External Links
HFS Extended Attributes
Auditing flags
Symbolic Links
Unix owners and permissions
Case sensitivity
JAVA INTERFACE END USER RESTORES
This is a completely new facility of FDR/UPSTREAM.
A separate program, written as a Java application, provides a Windows
Explorer-like interface for the selection and monitoring of restores for
users. This facility greatly reduces training for user specified restores
and allows a GUI restore facility in environments where none existed previously
including UNIX systems and the Java console on NetWare file servers.
Technical support for Dec. 31, 1999 to Jan. 4, 2000
All technical support during this period will be provided by Innovation's
USA Corporate Office. There are three ways to contact us during this period:
By phone: (973) 890-7300
By fax: (973) 890-7147
By e-mail: support@fdrinnovation.com
Use whichever is convenient for you. This office will be staffed during
this entire period.
Customers who receive support thru our European offices should refer to
the attached document for further information on local calling procedures.
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