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Restoring to a Minidisk

You can only restore data from a physical backup of a CKD DASD to a minidisk on the same device type and class. For example, you cannot restore data backed up physically from a 3380 to a 3375 or a 3390; you must restore data backed up physically from a 3380 to a 3380. You can restore data from an FBA device to any other FBA device. You cannot restore data backed up physically to a virtual reader or directory.

If the target minidisk is smaller than the original minidisk, CA VM:Backup restores only a portion of the data; the minidisk may be left in an invalid state. If the target minidisk is larger than the original source minidisk, the target minidisk assumes the size of the smaller source minidisk.