FDRINC is a high-performance utility that provides volume and incremental backup, restore and disaster recovery services for z/OS. With FDRINC you can take frequent backups of your z/OS DASD without having to backup every data set every day. From those managed backups, either the whole volume or individual data sets can be easily restored.
FDRINC backups can be easily integrated into a DFSMS environment, but can also be used to secure DASD volumes in non-SMS environments.
FDRINC is the ideal tool for Disaster Recovery, allowing you to quickly and easily restore entire DASD volumes back to the point of their most recent backup.
Managed Backups
FDRINC is an intelligent and “managed” backup system, which means that the details of all volumes and data sets that are backed up are recorded in a special, high-performance mechanism that requires no additional DASD space. This information is used to provide automated restore facilities.
Performance
FDRINC consistently out-performs its competitors, often using considerably less CPU resources and requiring less elapsed time in order to complete the task in hand. With FDRINC you can reduce your application downtime and improve on data availability by ensuring that your backups run as fast as possible, with the minimum disruption to users.
FDRINC also helps you to improve your home site restore capabilities with automated data set and volume restores, and it can speed up your disaster recovery with the concurrent volume recovery process, which can be even further enhanced via the FDRDRP volume recovery performance option.
FDRINC with FDRINSTANT
Even with FDRINC’s superior performance, it may still take several hours to complete all your backups, especially in larger shops where several thousand DASD volumes may need to be secured each day.
However, when FDRINC is used in conjunction with FDRINSTANT, you can reduce to a bare minimum the downtime usually associated with taking backups. FDRINSTANT provides near 24x7 backup of offline volumes created by DASD Subsystem features like EMC TimeFinder (including CLONE/Snap), Hitachi ShadowImage and IBM FlashCopy. See FDRINSTANT for more details.