Choose your save media

Tape is the most common media that is used for save and restore operations. You can also save your user data and your system data to optical media.

The table below shows which save and restore commands support which types of media.

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Table 1. Media Used with the Save Commands
Command Tape Start of changeVirtual TapeEnd of change Start of changeOptical mediaEnd of change Start of changeVirtual OpticalEnd of change Start of changeSave fileEnd of change
SAVSYS Yes Start of changeYes4End of change Start of changeYes1End of change Start of changeYes4End of change Start of changeNoEnd of change
SAVCFG Yes Start of changeYesEnd of change Start of changeYesEnd of change Start of changeYesEnd of change Start of changeYesEnd of change
SAVSECDTA Yes Start of changeYesEnd of change Start of changeYesEnd of change Start of changeYesEnd of change Start of changeYesEnd of change
SAVLIB Yes Start of changeYesEnd of change Start of changeYes2End of change Start of changeYesEnd of change Start of changeYesEnd of change
SAVOBJ Yes Start of changeYesEnd of change Start of changeYesEnd of change Start of changeYesEnd of change Start of changeYesEnd of change
SAVCHGOBJ Yes Start of changeYesEnd of change Start of changeYesEnd of change Start of changeYesEnd of change Start of changeYesEnd of change
SAVDLO Yes Start of changeYesEnd of change Start of changeYes3End of change Start of changeYesEnd of change Start of changeYesEnd of change
SAVSAVFDTA Yes Start of changeYesEnd of change Start of changeYesEnd of change Start of changeYesEnd of change Start of changeNoEnd of change
SAVLICPGM Yes Start of changeYes4End of change Start of changeYes1End of change Start of changeYes4End of change Start of changeYesEnd of change
SAVSTG Yes Start of changeNoEnd of change Start of changeNoEnd of change Start of changeNoEnd of change Start of changeNoEnd of change
SAV Yes Start of changeYesEnd of change Start of changeYesEnd of change Start of changeYesEnd of change Start of changeYesEnd of change
RUNBCKUP Yes Start of changeYesEnd of change Start of changeNoEnd of change Start of changeNoEnd of change Start of changeNoEnd of change
SAVSYSINF Yes Start of changeYesEnd of change Start of changeYesEnd of change Start of changeYesEnd of change Start of changeYesEnd of change
1
You cannot run this command on an optical media library device.
2
You can specify SAVLIB LIB(*ALLUSR), SAVLIB LIB(*IBM), or SAVLIB LIB(*NONSYS) when you use optical media. However, you need to initialize your optical media to the *UDF format. You cannot use optical media that you initialized to *HPOFS format.
3
You can save document library objects (DLO) from more than one auxiliary storage pool (ASP) to optical media with a single SAVDLO command. However, you need to initialize your optical media to the *UDF format. You cannot use optical media that you initialized to *HPOFS format.
4
In a disaster recovery situation you must have physical media of the Licensed Internal Code and the operating system to begin your recovery.
  
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Optical media library devices allow you to archive information to optical media, and they provide backup and recovery capability similar to tape media. The Optical Support book provides more information about using optical media. If you want to substitute optical media for tape in some of your existing procedures, you need to evaluate how to assign saved objects to directories on the optical media and how to name the media.

Parent topic: Prepare your media to save your server
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