Overview

IBM® Storage Protect Snapshot provides a method to back up and restore data by using the advanced snapshot technologies of storage systems.

The following list identifies the applications that can be protected and cloned with IBM Storage Protect Snapshot:

DB2®
DB2 in an SAP environment
DB2 in a partitioned database environment. You can back up and restore data from single-partition databases, and logically or physically partitioned DB2 databases.
Oracle
Oracle in an SAP environment
Oracle with Automatic Storage Management (ASM)
Oracle in a RAC environment.
Custom Applications (without cloning)

IBM Storage Protect Snapshot can back up DB2 databases that are on snapshot-oriented storage systems or file systems.

IBM Storage Protect Snapshot supports AIX® and Linux™ operating systems.

When you use IBM Storage Protect Snapshot with other IBM Storage Protect products, snapshots can be sent to the server.

Transfer snapshots by using IBM Storage Protect for Enterprise Resource Planning, IBM DB2 Storage Protect client for DB2 environments, or the IBM Storage Protect backup-archive client.
To send snapshot backups to IBM Storage Protect, you must configure a backup server or cluster.
For DB2 in SAP environments, use IBM Storage Protect for Enterprise Resource Planning.
For DB2 environments, use the IBM DB2 Storage Protect client for DB2 environments.

The following list identifies the storage solutions or file systems that you can use with IBM Storage Protect Snapshot software: