Volume Backup dialog box

You use this dialog box to issue the DFSMShsm BACKVOL command to back up all eligible datasets on the selected volumes.

You access this dialog box in the Volume Actions submenu. This submenu is available in the pop-up menu that you access by right-clicking specific views in a workspace.

To learn about the standard capabilities of a dialog box, see Standard tabs in the dialog boxes of the Storage Toolkit. The topic includes a link to the Reference guides for commands that are used in the Storage Toolkit.

The action supplies the following information to the service:

• Device Type (default device category, Type or DASD)
• Backup Type (incremental or full)
• Backup datasets not backed up in the last n days. (Range of n: 0-999)

For datasets not managed by SMS, you can target datasets that have not been backed up in the last n days, where n ranges from 0 to 999.

With Tivoli OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS Version 4.2.0 Interim Feature 3 or later, you can select *SMSVOLG or *USRVOLG as an attribute of the command variable on the Command tab of the Volume Backup dialog box. *SMSVOLG represents a dynamic set of volumes within the storage group which will be resolved at job submission time. *USRVOLG represents a dynamic set of volumes within the USER DASD storage group which will be resolved at job submission time.