Dynamicimage

Supported Clients

This option is valid for AIX®, Solaris, and all Linux clients. The IBM Spectrum Protect™ API does not support this option.

Options File

Place the include.image statement containing the dynamicimage value in the server stanza in your system-options file, dsm.sys. You can also set this option using the Preferences editor.

Parameters

value

Specifies one of the following values:

yes

Use this option only if the volume cannot be unmounted and remounted as read-only. The client backs up the volume as is without remounting it as read-only. Corruption of the backup can occur if applications write to the volume while the backup is in progress. In this case, run fsck after a restore and manually mount the file system in order to regain access to the volume. This option is valid for AIX, Solaris, and all Linux clients.

Note: This option is not allowed for AIX JFS2 file systems.

no

Use this option if you do not want to perform a dynamic image backup. This is the default. The default behavior depends on the platform and file system type. For platforms and file systems that support snapshot, namely AIX JFS2 file systems and LINUX LVM file systems, the default is snapshot-based image backup. For all other UNIX platforms and file systems, the default is static image backup.