DEVICE_CLASS device
The IBM® Storage Protect
Snapshot profile
configuration file can contain one or more DEVICE_CLASS sections. The device class
section configures IBM Storage Protect
Snapshot for use with
a particular storage or file system solution. The parameters do not depend on the custom application
that is protected.
Use care when you rename or delete a DEVICE_CLASS section from the
profile, as you cannot access backups that were taken with the original
DEVICE_CLASS section. Therefore, first remove backups and clones that are
associated with the DEVICE_CLASS before you rename or delete the
DEVICE_CLASS section.
A device refers to supported IBM
XIV® Storage System , IBM
Storwize® family, IBM
System Storage® SAN Volume Controller, and IBM
System Storage
DS8000® series.
For more information about setting different device class MAX_VERSIONS, see Backup version retention.
In addition to these storage systems, a device can also be a General Parallel File System (GPFS™) file system.