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Backup and Restore Utilities

This chapter contains information on the following utilities, which provide functions necessary for backup or restoration of databases.

ACFDBRST

Restores CA ACF2 for z/VM database information from sequential backups into CMS format databases or VSAM databases.

ACFDBSYN

Synchronizes backup copies of CA ACF2 for z/VM databases with the online databases.

ACFDBVSM

Creates or merges CMS database records into existing VSAM databases.

ACFLINIT

Initializes a VSAM database and prepares it so the ACFDBRST or ADFDBVSM utilities can load it.

ACFRECVR

Processes the database update SMF records that CA ACF2 for z/VM produced and forward merges them into the CA ACF2 for z/VM databases to produce an up‑to‑date set of these databases.

This section contains the following topics:

ACFDBRST - Restoring Databases

ACFDBSYN - Synchronizing Databases

ACFDBVSM - Creating or Merging CMS and VSAM Databases

ACFLINIT - Initializing VSAM Databases

ACFRECVR - Performing Recoveries