How your save-while-active function fits into your backup and recovery strategy depends on whether you will reduce or eliminate your save-outage time. These pages contain information to help you decide how you will use the save-while-active function. It also contains pages with technical descriptions of the save-while-active function.
How the save-while-active function fits into your backup and recovery strategy depends on if you plan to reduce or eliminate your save-outage time.
Reducing your save-outage time is the easiest way to use the save-while-active function. When you use this option, the restore procedure is the same as when you perform a standard save. In addition, you can use the save-while-active function to reduce your save-outage time without using journaling or commitment control. Unless you have no tolerance for a save-outage time, you should use the save-while-active function to reduce your save outage.
You can use the save-while-active function to eliminate your save outage. Use this option only if you have no tolerance for a save-outage time. You should use the save-while-active function to eliminate your save-outage time only for objects that you protect with journaling or commitment control. In addition you will have considerably more complex recovery procedures. You should consider these more complex recovery procedures in your disaster recovery plan. .
This topic may help you decide how the save-while-active function fits into your backup and recovery plan. Review your applications. Other procedures that you use in your backup and recovery strategy still apply. You should still consider them when you review your backup and recovery procedures. You may conclude one of the following:
The following pages may help you make an informed decision on how to use the save-while-active function.