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Description

VMXBKP02 links to the CA VM:Secure DRCT minidisk to perform the backup and detaches from this minidisk upon completion. A link password is not required because a temporary directory link is added to the issuing virtual machine’s directory entry. After the backup is completed, CA VM:Secure erases the directory entries on the CA VM:Secure BKUP minidisk because all recent changes are now backed up.

To protect against data loss in the event of hardware failures, allocate your backup minidisk on a different real DASD volume from your DRCT minidisk.

CA VM:Secure must be up and running to use this utility.

If the CA VM:Secure service virtual machine has a user ID other than VMSECURE, the VMXBKP02 EXEC must be modified to use the new user ID.

Note: VMXBKP02 erases all old files from the vaddr minidisk before it copies the DRCT minidisk to the backup minidisk.

Examples

• Create a mirror image of your source directory (DRCT) minidisk to a minidisk that you own:
  1. Choose a minidisk to which you want VMXBKP02 to write your mirror image.
  2. Enter the following command:

     VMXBKP02 vaddr
     

• Later, to recover your source directory:
  1. Create a new DRCT minidisk.
  2. Copy the source directory database files from your backup minidisk to the new DRCT minidisk.
  3. Update the DRCT minidisk using the files that have accumulated on the CA VM:Secure BKUP minidisk since VMXBKP02 last ran