The CA Disk Disaster Recovery Extract Utility (XCOPY) creates ARCHVOLS from CA Disk archive and backup tapes. With its unique design, XCOPY creates ARCHVOLS in a way that will not impact your normal production backup window. These newly created ARCHVOLS are identical in file format to their archive and backup counterparts; they just reside in separate FILES.
XCOPY provides its own set of flexible commands and parameters that allow Storage Administrators to copy only a subset of archive and backup data onto the new ARCHVOLS. Data sets can be selected by fully qualifying their data set names, or by selecting a special character and specifying a pattern of a data set name.
CA Disk data compression, activated via the DCDATACP sysparm, has no effect on XCOPY. Data is processed identically as the input volume, whether it was compressed or not.
Note: Output ARCHVOLS can by compressed using IDRC even if the input ARCHVOL was not.
Finally, XCOPY has an internal mechanism that gives the Storage Administrator the ability to maintain different DSNINDEX and ARCHVOL expiration dates from those on their primary archive and backup copies.
XCOPY is an ideal complement to a Data Center's disaster recovery procedure. While running XCOPY, you will benefit in lower CPU usage compared to that of your normal archive and backup production jobs. XCOPY is designed to copy data from an archive and backup ARCHVOL onto a Disaster Recovery ARCHVOL, eliminating all data set and volume selection overhead.
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