Concepts for saving and restoring optical media

 

Optical devices support many of the most widely used i5/OS^® Save and Restore commands.

The DVD-RAM stand-alone optical drive device is an economical alternative to magnetic tape for save/restore operations on entry-level systems. The DVD-RAM stand-alone drive device supports all major save/restore functions. The automated library device enhances ease of use of save and restore operations that require volume lists.

• Optical media formats with saving and restoring operations
  This topic provides general information about different media formats in relation to save and restore volume list processing.
• Organizing save and restore data on optical devices
  This topic provides information about organizing save and restore data on optical devices according to path name lengths, naming conventions, and directory levels.
• Displaying save and restore file information on optical storage
  You can use various commands to save and restore file information.
• Volume list contents
  Volume lists allow a single save and restore operation to use many pieces of optical media to complete the requested operation.
• Volume lists with HPOFS format media
  This topic describes volume list information specific to High Performance Optical File System (HPOFS) format media.
• Volume lists with UDF media
  This topic describes volume list information specific to Universal Disk Format (UDF) media.

 

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Saving and restoring optical media