Optical save and restore concepts

Optical devices support many of the most widely used i5/OS™ Save and Restore CL commands.

The DVD-RAM standalone optical drive device is an economical alternative to magnetic tape for save/restore operations on entry level iSeries™ servers. The DVD-RAM standalone drive device supports all major save/restore functions. The automated library device enhances ease of use of save and restore operations that require volume lists.

• Optical media formats with save and restore operations
  This topic provides general information about different media formats in relation to save and restore volume list processing.
• Organize save and restore data on optical devices
  This topic provides information about organizing save and restore data on optical devices according to path name lengths, naming conventions, and directory levels.
• Display save and restore file information on optical storage
  
• Volume list contents
  Volume lists allow a single Save and Restore operation to use many pieces of optical media to complete the requested operation.
• Volume lists with HPOFS format media
  This topic describes volume list information specific to HPOFS format media.
• Volume lists with UDF format media
  This topic describes volume list information specific to universal disk format (UDF) media.