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MIMIX® RecoverNow 5.1Technical Overview

Last Updated: February 3rd 2012

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Customer Story - TMHE

Hot Backup with CDPHot Backup with CDP

ProductionSystem i

Hot BackupSystem i

Lawson M3Production

Lawson M3Hot Backup

MovexProduction

MovexHot Backup

CDPSystem i

iTERAAVAILABILITYTM

MIMIX RECOVERNOWTM

iTERAAVAILABILITYTM

Linköping Stockholm

Mjölby

TMHE (part of Toyota Industries Corp) provides a complete range of Toyota counterbalanced forklift trucks and BT warehouse equipment, supported by services and added value solutions. TMHE employs 4,000 service technicians and is active in more than 30 countries across Europe.

iTERA AVAILABILITY is used to maintain remote real-time HA/DR environments for the mission critical Lawson M3 and Movex environments. 24X7 operation is maintained by eliminating down time during tape backups and planned maintenance and ensuring fast recovery with no data loss after any unplanned outage. Industry leading autonomic capabilities help ensure this is a low maintenance and flexible solution.

MIMIX RECOVERNOW is used to provide an additional level of protection for the mission critical Lawson M3 environment. Data changes are replicated from the M3 hot backup system to another remote location where they are stored in a disk vault for roll-forward recovery after a tape restore. This allows recovery of objects and libraries to a specific historical point in time and also provides DR for the hot backup system during planned maintenance operations.

Nightly tape backup

(SAVLIB)

Data changes

Nightly tape backup

(SAVLIB)


MIMIX® RecoverNow 5.1Recover More Data Than With Tape Alone*(1)

Recover Objects To Any Historical Point In Time

System i DR & CDP

Now used by over 150 customers

*(1) Typical RPO with tape alone backups is 24 hours. Typical RPO with RecoverNow is 15-30 minutes

Nightly backups to a local/remote disk*(2)

Users remain on-line during nightly backups

Data changes saved to disk between backups*(3)

Allows recovery potentially right up to point of failure

Or recover data to any historical point in time (CDP)

Uses any TCP/IP disk storage platform (e.g. Windows)

Data compressed on disk typically by 60%

Automates journaling for data capture

Easy to set up and manage

Easy to restore data to a new system/LPAR

Used also for data migration / test environments

Use stand alone or to add CDP to Vision HA *(2) Optionally nightly backups can be to tape, compatible with BRMS*(3) Typically every 15-30 mins. User configurabl interval


Standard Tape Backup Typically Gives 24 Hour RPO

There is typically a 24 hour interval between tape backups This means there is typically a potential for 24 hours of data loss! Lost data must be re-keyed after the tape backup is restored 24 hours of lost data can take days or sometimes weeks to re-key! Nightly backups typically introduce down time

Tip: Recovery Point Objective (RPO) with tape is the number of hours between tape backups

Backup toTape


MIMIX® RecoverNow Backup Typically Gives 15-30 Minute RPO

There is typically a 24 hour interval between disk*(1) backups Data changes are captured and pushed-to-disk between backups*(2)

Users can remain on-line during the disk backups Recovery possible potential right up to point of failure Recovery also possible to any historical point in time (CDP) *(3)

Tip: Recovery Point Objective (RPO) with RecoverNow is the number of minutes between ‘push-to-disk’

Backup toDisk

Data changes are captured and ‘pushed-to-vault’ frequently

between backups

*(1) Backups can be to disk vault or optionally to tape, its compatible with BRMS *(2) Push-to-vault is always to vault at user configurable intervals*(3) CDP is continuous data protection


MIMIX® RecoverNow Architecture

RecoverNowStorage Platform / Vault

Tip: RecoverNow is compatible with BRMSso nightly tape backups can still be done to tape using BRMS commands… RecoverNow adds ability to save changed data to disk vault in between backups


Flexible Configuration Topologies

Some Examples:

Tip: A single RecoverNow vault cansupport multiple sources

Local Vault

Remote Vault

Same building

Frequent transfer of data changes

Any TCP/IPStorage Platform

Production System i

RecoverNowPlatform

External TCP/IPcommunications

Any distance

Frequent transfer of data changes


RecoverNowPlatform

Production System i

Hosted Vault


RecoverNowPlatform

Production System i or LPAR


Combining MIMIX® RecoverNow With Vision HA

Vision HA provides:

Last transaction recovery

High levels of availability

RecoverNow adds:

Data recovery to historical point-in-time (CDP)

Option to do hot backups from local production system

Tip: HA environments let you recover only to last transactionAdding RecoverNow adds recovery to a historical point-in-time

Tip: HA environments allow hot backups only from the recovery systemAdding RecoverNow allows hot backups also from the production system

Vision HA(MIMIX, OMS/ODS, iTERA)


Production System i

RecoverySystem i

RecoverNowPlatform


Main Menu & System Controls

All options accessible from a single menu

Before starting RecoverNow define connection details to your remote storage platform (vault) and how journal receivers will be managed


Active Monitoring

RecoverNow runs automatically so typically no user actions are needed. The monitor shows all activity in the RecoverNow subsystem (saves and journal receiver pushed to the vault). The monitor also verifies that all libraries and objects are being saved correctly.

Tip: Some compliance regulations require that backups are actively checked (unlike tape). The monitor helps address that requirement because it’s proactive.


Saving With MIMIX® RecoverNow

The standard IBM SAVLIB, SAVOBJ, SAV, SAVSECDTA, SAVDLO, SAVCHGOBJ or SAVCFG are embedded as parameters of RecoverNow IVSAV command which pushes the save to the vault and starts journaling (if it has not yet been started)

Typically libraries and objects are saved while active because the journal ensures recovery to a specific point in time..

Tip: Set this up on the IBM job scheduler to performDaily saves. RecoverNow allows saves to be rotated and recycled depending on the capacity of the vault.


Restoring Libraries & Objects With MIMIX® RecoverNow

From the Work with Save History screen, select option 12=Work savedlibraries/objects to display all the libraries of a save.

Select option 15=Restore to perform the restore. If you select option 15 on more than one library, the saves will be processed one after the other.

Tip: Similar process if you wish to restore individual objects


Applying Journal History With MIMIX® RecoverNow

Apply the associated journal receivers. A message will display indicating that the apply process has been submitted.

You are informed when the journal apply process is finished, transactions are ‘rolled forward’ as if users and jobs had been updating the data.

Tip: If you want to restore to a historical point in time, select only the receivers that were pushed to vault before that point.


Other Considerations

• Data areas and data queues currently not journaled

• SAVCHGOBJ *ALL *ALLUSR , SAVSYSINF, SAVOBJ & SAVCHGOBJ using multiple libraries currently not supported

• For remote vaults a T1 line supports approx 1Gb/hour transfer rate

• Bandwidth calculator: http://www.t1shopper.com/tools/calculate/downloadcalculator.shtml

• SAVSYS is performed outside of RecoverNow to tape as recommended by IBM

• In the event of total system failure…do the following:

• 1. IBM repair or replace the production system

• 2. Restore SAVSYS from tape

• 3. Connect to vault manually with TCPIP

• 4. Restore RecoverNow from vault to new system

• 5. RecoverNow now guides you to retrieve the save history and guides you to restore the application libraries to the most recent journal receiver pushed to vault

Tip: No license key required for the restore…but you will need one to start saving again to a new system. Contact CustomerCare.


New Features In 5.1?

• Support for data area and data queue changes – real time capture

• Recovery assistant – helps automate and simplify restore

• Journal filter changes – accelerates recovery of individual objects

• Object monitor history screen – further simplifies recovery

• Installation wizard – simplifies installation

• Vision auto validate – simplifies licensing


Customer Story – Boone County, Missouri, USA

“A great advantage of using RecoverNow is the ability to know we can go back to specific points-in-time on our critical systems”

Jeff Winters, Supervisor of Systems Analysis

Finance applications

Sheriffsapplications

Development

TCP/IP

System i LPAR #2

System iLPAR #1

System iLPAR #3

TCP/IP

TCP/IP

In late 2008 systems were used for voter informationand election tracking. RecoverNow safeguarded the

data for the presidential election 2008.

Local Government

RecoverNow pushing 1Tb of diskto the vault

RecoverNow also usedto restore application

environments on other systems.

RecoverNowPlatform


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