Choosing your save media
Learn about the different types of media that can be used for save and restore operations as well as which save and restore commands can be used with the different types of media.
Tape is the most common media that is used for save and restore operations. You can also save your user data and your system data to optical media.
The table below shows which save and restore commands support which types of media.
Command | Tape | Virtual tape | Optical media | Virtual optical | Save file |
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SAVSYS | Yes | Yes4 | Yes1 | Yes4 | No |
SAVCFG | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
SAVSECDTA | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
SAVLIB | Yes | Yes | Yes2 | Yes | Yes |
SAVOBJ | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
SAVCHGOBJ | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
SAVDLO | Yes | Yes | Yes3 | Yes | Yes |
SAVSAVFDTA | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
SAVLICPGM | Yes | Yes4 | Yes1 | Yes4 | Yes |
SAVSTG | Yes | No | No | No | No |
SAV | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
RUNBCKUP | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
SAVSYSINF | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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