Many IBM® customers have shown interest in a solution that allows them to use the powerful backup and restore facilities on their IBM System z® host to back up and restore LUNs created for open system hosts using a Fixed Block Architecture (FBA) format.

In cooperation with our partner company INNOVATION Data Processing, IBM has designed a solution that covers such a need.

This IBM Redpapers™ publication provides an overview of the solution. It describes:

- The background and motivation for this solution

- The steps to execute to use z/OS® Distributed Data Backup and FDRSOS

- Our experiences when evaluating t he solution

- Further considerations, such as IBM FlashCopy® integration and file level backup and restore

Background and motivation

z/OS Distributed Data Backup

FDRSOS

Backing up a DS8700 LUN in FBA format using FDRSOS

Experimenting with z/OS DDB and FDRSOS

Further considerations regarding z/OS DDB and FDRSOS