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 Your Backup Strategy
  This topic describes the step necessary to define a backup strategy.
• Duplicate Optical (DUPOPT)
  The Duplicate Optical (DUPOPT) command creates a duplicate optical volume.
• Copy optical (CPYOPT)
  This topic discusses the Copy Optical (CPYOPT) CL command and some of the optional parameters which you can specify.
• Save/Restore (SAV/RST) commands
  The SAV command can be used to create a backup of an optical volume image. The volume image is restored using the RST command.