IBM Tivoli Advanced Backup and Recovery

• The ABARS Manager feature unlocks the power of the ABARS data mover enabling data centers to take advantage of unprecedented backup support for data in a mainframe environment. It allows users to combine the disaster recovery solution provided by ABARS with a regular incremental backup strategy.This can minimize the number of backups required at an installation.
• The Automated Critical Data Identification feature enables you to proactively and efficiently identify critical data for backup.
• The Critical Backup Tracking / Inventory feature intercepts and inventories non-ABARS backups, without JCL changes. It tracks and manages DFSMSdss™, FDR, IDCAMS, DFSMShsm, Incremental, and AUTODUMP, and many more utilities, ensuring that critical non-ABARS backups are made.

Tivoli Advanced Backup and Recovery has a base license charge with optional priced feature numbers for each desired feature. The base product number is 5698-A94. Details on ordering and pricing information can be found in Announcement 206-325 dated December 5, 2006

• ABARS Manager enhances the value of DFSMShsm ABARS:
  • All backup information and backup status is accessible through one central point
  • Backup status and details can be viewed online
  • Online access to the full activity log and all error messages, as well as condensed status summary, makes ABARS management simple
  • Detail dataset inventory provides recovery capacity requirements, recovery tape VOLSER, and other key planning and operational details
• Incremental ABARS allows users to combine their disaster recovery back up strategy with an incremental backup capability. The benefits of this are a reduced backup size, improved backup and recovery performance, and reduced resources to vault and maintain the backup.
• With ABARS Manager, the value of ABARS is expanded to provide a local recovery solution that allows searching and recovering selected data sets from ABARS or DFSMShsm backups.
• Automated Critical Data Identification interfaces directly into ABARS Manager to ensure all critical assets are included in the backup.
• Critical Backup Tracking / Inventory ensures that all critical non-ABARS-managed assets have a backup, tracks and inventories all other backups in the environment and identifies duplicate backups.

Tivoli Advanced Backup and Recovery ensures that assets that need to be backed up are backed up; it can reduce or eliminate duplicate backups, and it can increase the accuracy and speed of recoveries from local outages.