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Description

The VMXBKP03 EXEC uses the copy utility specified on the ALTERNAT COPYFILE configuration record to copy all the files from your source directory minidisk, DRCT, to a minidisk that you, or the user ID issuing this EXEC, own. If no ALTERNAT COPYFILE record exists, then CA VM:Secure uses the CMS COPYFILE command.

VMXBKP03 links to the CA VM:Secure DRCT minidisk to perform the backup and detaches 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 BKUP minidisk because all recent changes are now backed up.

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

Note: The VMXBKP03 utility erases all files on the specified backup minidisk before it copies the DRCT minidisk to it.

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.

If the CA VM:Secure service virtual machine has a user ID other than VMSECURE, the VMXBKP03 EXEC must be modified to use the new user ID.

Examples

• To copy files from your source directory to your 193 minidisk, enter the command:

  VMXBKP03 193 A
  

• To recover this source directory:
  1. Create a DRCT minidisk.
  2. Copy the 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 VMXBKP03 last ran.