1. Copyright 2008, Innovation Data Processing
Linux for zSeries
Data Protection
Patrick Fitzsimmons
Copyright 2008, Innovation Data Processing

2. IT managers still find the backup/restore process brings the most storage related ANXIETY

3. The FDR/UPSTREAM Suite
A single INNOVATION solution that leverages the unique strengths of IBM System z, zSeries, pSeries AIX, SUN SPARC and Intel x-86 servers to provide enterprise strength protection for databases and data on distributed storage.
The FDR/UPSTREAM suite is a comprehensive business resiliency solution that provides data protection and business continuance for servers and databases every where in the enterprise.
FDR/UPSTREAM is a powerful, feature rich solution for network attached and distributed enterprise storage management for PC/LAN, UNIX servers and workstations, that combines a traditional client server model with advanced data reduction techniques to dramatically minimize the amount of data that moves across a network.
An OS/390 based solution, FDR/UPSTREAM leverages the advanced data management capability and dependability of the mainframe as a policy based system managed storage server providing enterprise-wide incremental backup, logical file restore, hierarchical storage management, file transfer and bi-directional cross platform job initiation.

4. Storage Servers FDR/UPSTREAM z/OS mainframe
Same client as the Reservoir
Tape compatible with the Reservoir
UPSTREAM Reservoir
Windows
AIX
Linux (Intel, zLinux, pSeries Linux)
Solaris (Intel or Sun)

5. FDR/UPSTREAM Clients Windows NT/XP/Vista Windows Server 2003/2008
Novell NetWare
Novell OES2 Linux
IBM AIX
Sun Solaris
Sun X86
VMware
HP-UX
Tru64 UNIX
X86 Linux
Linux for zSeries
Linux for pSeries
z/OS UNIX
Any system that can be NFS mounted can be backed up/restored
Upstream was specially developed for PC/UNIX operating systems and supports important system files and objects such as NDS, Registry, Active Directory, ACLs, event logs

6. UPSTREAM zLINUX
Supports zLinux clients on z/OS on Linux LPAR or z/VM virtual machine
Support for SuSE, Marist, Red Hat, and Debian on zSeries and includes:
Full-featured daemon
Backup, restore, file transfer and other UPSTREAM storage management features
A variety of file system features including hard links, symbolic links, owners, Reiser, ext2, ext3, GFS, MAPFS, GPFS, XFS, NFS, single file system support, and remotes NFS attachments
Online support for Oracle, DB2, and Domino
UPSTREAM Rescuer
Leverages HiperSockets if installed

7. Flexible Operations
Centralized administration and control that can be performed from z/OS server
Most operations can also be performed from the client giving client administrators control for restore operations
Automated operations that keep administrators informed
event notification can send and SNMP Trap notifications
JCL condition code checking
The key to the product and process is centralized administration and control

8. User Interfaces
Director Management interface—platform independent JAVA Application that can be run from anywhere
Web browser enabled
End User Restore Interface
ISPF Interface
Command Line
Character mode Operations Include
Backup/Restore/Inquiry
Status Display
File Transfers
Run Process
A key to effective enterprise storage management is to centralize administration.
It is no secret that effective management of storage distributed across an enterprise is only practical through centralized administration.
Recognizing this, FDR/UPSTREAM/SOS administrative facilities include facilities specifically designed to centralize administration and control.
Feature considerations in this are:
User defined management policies
Backup storage allocation controlled through mainframe SMS
Remote management through GUI clients or mainframe ISPF menus
Flexible operations - Remote initiation through client or mainframe production scheduling facilities.
Backup other distributed platform’s network attached storage.
Let Registered Name Services administer user identities and service levels.
Event logging, comprehensive reporting and real time monitoring available from both GUI clients or mainframe server ISPF menus provide end to end total control.

9. Scheduling Client Initiated Operations can be initiated from:
z/OS with your EXISTING z/OS Job Scheduler such as CA7 or Zeke or
UPSTREAM z/OS Integrated Scheduler
Client Initiated
UPSTREAM Dispatcher Client Scheduler or
Your EXISTING Client Scheduler such as CRON
Upstream’s flexibility is demonstrated by the various methods supported to initated backups. Use Cron

10. UPSTREAM z/OS Initiated BATCH Submissions
Initiate Backup, Restore & Run Functions
Can Wait for Process Completion…Return Code Processing
Can initiate multiple, concurrent operations
Used as an interface to host-based JOB scheduling systems
A key to effective enterprise storage management is to centralize administration.
It is no secret that effective management of storage distributed across an enterprise is only practical through centralized administration.
Recognizing this, FDR/UPSTREAM/SOS administrative facilities include facilities specifically designed to centralize administration and control.
Feature considerations in this are:
User defined management policies
Backup storage allocation controlled through mainframe SMS
Remote management through GUI clients or mainframe ISPF menus
Flexible operations - Remote initiation through client or mainframe production scheduling facilities.
Backup other distributed platform’s network attached storage.
Let Registered Name Services administer user identities and service levels.
Event logging, comprehensive reporting and real time monitoring available from both GUI clients or mainframe server ISPF menus provide end to end total control.

11. z/OS Management Server with Familiar TSO ISPF Interface
Similar to the open system GUI client, ISPF menus allow easy control over remotely initiated centrally scheduled or ad hoc backup across the enterprise as well as system wide or on-demand restore for individual clients.
The bi-directional FDR/UPSTREAM remote management facility allows users to exploit their mainframe schedulers and production job control systems, leveraging their existing investment in these powerful facilities.

12. z/OS Storage Server
Similar to the open system GUI client, ISPF menus allow easy control over remotely initiated centrally scheduled or ad hoc backup across the enterprise as well as system wide or on-demand restore for individual clients.
The bi-directional FDR/UPSTREAM remote management facility allows users to exploit their mainframe schedulers and production job control systems, leveraging their existing investment in these powerful facilities.

13. z/OS Management Server with Familiar TSO ISPF Interface
Similar to the open system GUI client, ISPF menus allow easy control over remotely initiated centrally scheduled or ad hoc backup across the enterprise as well as system wide or on-demand restore for individual clients.
The bi-directional FDR/UPSTREAM remote management facility allows users to exploit their mainframe schedulers and production job control systems, leveraging their existing investment in these powerful facilities.

14. z/OS Management Server with Familiar TSO ISPF Interface
Similar to the open system GUI client, ISPF menus allow easy control over remotely initiated centrally scheduled or ad hoc backup across the enterprise as well as system wide or on-demand restore for individual clients.
The bi-directional FDR/UPSTREAM remote management facility allows users to exploit their mainframe schedulers and production job control systems, leveraging their existing investment in these powerful facilities.

15. OS/390 Management Server
Similar to the open system GUI client, ISPF menus allow easy control over remotely initiated centrally scheduled or ad hoc backup across the enterprise as well as system wide or on-demand restore for individual clients.
The bi-directional FDR/UPSTREAM remote management facility allows users to exploit their mainframe schedulers and production job control systems, leveraging their existing investment in these powerful facilities.

16. OS/390 Management Server
Similar to the open system GUI client, ISPF menus allow easy control over remotely initiated centrally scheduled or ad hoc backup across the enterprise as well as system wide or on-demand restore for individual clients.
The bi-directional FDR/UPSTREAM remote management facility allows users to exploit their mainframe schedulers and production job control systems, leveraging their existing investment in these powerful facilities.

17. Director-JAVA & Browser GUI
UPSTREAM management interface
Ad-hoc backups and restores
Run jobs, reports, examine logs
Directory tree of backups and files within backups
Add or exclude files
All without mounting tapes
Dispatcher scheduler
Similar to the open system GUI client, ISPF menus allow easy control over remotely initiated centrally scheduled or ad hoc backup across the enterprise as well as system wide or on-demand restore for individual clients.
The bi-directional FDR/UPSTREAM remote management facility allows users to exploit their mainframe schedulers and production job control systems, leveraging their existing investment in these powerful facilities.

18. Client Initiated Operations DIRECTOR
Similar to the open system GUI client, ISPF menus allow easy control over remotely initiated centrally scheduled or ad hoc backup across the enterprise as well as system wide or on-demand restore for individual clients.
The bi-directional FDR/UPSTREAM remote management facility allows users to exploit their mainframe schedulers and production job control systems, leveraging their existing investment in these powerful facilities.

19. Methods to Minimize Amount of Data Transmitted
Advanced de-duplication Data Reduction methods enable you to complete backup processing in your backup window
Logical File level Full Merge Backup
Incremental Backup Processing
Duplicate File Recognition
Data Compression
Exclude/Include
On-Line Database Agents
Auto Migrate inactive data
Segmented backup support
Upstream provides an extensive array of data reduction techniques to minimize the amount of data sent across the wire.
Some of the sophisticated techniques FDR/UPSTREAM/SOS applies to reduce data transmission and backup media requirements include:
Symmetrix Pass Through
Logical File Granularity
Incremental Backup
Automatic Duplicate File Recognition
Optimized Data Compression
Logical Volume Merge

20. Client Compression to Help Reduce Data Transmission
UPSTREAM offers 5 levels
Fast Compression uses RLE for medium-high speed environments
High Compression uses 3 levels of LZW for slow speed environments, minimizing usage of MVS storage
May not be help for OS/390 UNIX - define your goal
As well as mainframe IDRC tape hardware compression, another technology the FDR/UPSTREAM/SOS server and its clients employ to reduce data transmission and the backup media requirement is software data compression.
FDR/UPSTREAM/SOS software compression is an optional policy based service that allows administrators to specify which of the multiple client platform compressions offered should be used.
There is typically a resource trade off with compression. The Fast Compression options using RLE (run length encoding) strikes a savings and performance balance sufficient for most client’s purposes.
There are three additional High Compression options employing LZ (Lempth-Zempal) techniques, that can be used to minimize storage requirements when backups to be kept on mainframe or local disk and to exploit the exceptionally high performance of larger server platforms.

21. UPSTREAM Storage Server or Reservoir
Full Merge Backup
Client
UPSTREAM Storage Server or Reservoir
Tape
Disk
Full Merged Backup
Tape
Disk
Full Backup
Incremental Backup (1)
Incremental Backup (2)

22. Forward Merge Backup
Creates a full backup WITHOUT transmitting any unchanged data
Full Merge is constructed with Incremental Backup carry unchanged data from previous full = Full Server Image on 1 tape or tape set
Overcomes many limitations such as line speed, backup window and limited number of tape drives
Supports backups to both DASD and Tape
Uses 1 backup profile per server
Merge backups allow the FDR/UPSTREAM client to send a fraction of the total data on a disk (only slightly more than an incremental backup) and still end up with a complete full backup. Using a sophisticated technique,
the servers sends a “picture” of the drive(s) to be backed up to the MVS software which uses prior backups plus changed files to construct the fulls.
Advantages:
• A full backup is created with the server only having to send a tiny fraction of the total data.
• Easier to use, understand and manage. The beauty of a merge backup is that all the complexity is behind the scenes; it is actually as easy or easier to use than non-merge backups.
• If you are using tapes for incremental backups, you use fewer tapes.
A single backup profile name is used for full and incremental backups. It is recommended that this single profile represent a single, unchanging group of file specs (a single server, a single workstation disk, etc.). The facility
is flexible enough for you to be able to add or remove drives, however it is not recommended that you use a profile for more than one entity.

23. Run Jobs Backup/Restore related jobs can: Quiesce databases
Perform system maintenance tasks
Pre & Post Processing Jobs-Open system jobs can be executed from z/OS, and/or before or after backups or restores
Can be host or open system scheduled
Host jobs can be submitted from the open system
Used with for database agents
HSM like, disk grooming techniques using last access date detect inactive data. Based on a individual user defined storage management policies FDR/UPSTREAM/SOS, migrates un-referenced corporate data and outdated files from volatile UNIX and PC/LAN server’s active storage to inactive and secure mainframe archival storage.
Transparent auto recall on client access is an HSM facility for the seamless recall of files previously migrated from Novell server disk storage. When a file is removed from the LAN server a small stub is left in the local directory. Later if a user accesses the file by name it is automatically retrieved from a mainframe archive storage and transparently restored to the users disk in its original form.
A user prompt to allow the recall to proceed or fail is an option.

24. UPSTREAM Data Management
Individual client or global policy managed
Backup data managed by existing external tape management system
Retention periods usually managed with GDGs with benefit that system maintains itself
Can also use expiration dates
Migrate Disk Backups to Tape
Repro Tape for Off-Site Vaulting
Bi-Directional File Transfer
We suggest use of GDG with “Catalog Control” (EXPDT=99000)

25. UPSTREAM Merge Data Management Utilities
Migration—Intelligent DASD movement from DASD to tape that provides profile tape stacking
Deferred Merge—Helps overcome tape drive availability issues and reduce backup window
Forward Migration—additional Tape Stacking Utility. Reads in old tapes, mods todays data & writes, all on new tapes
Transparent auto recall on client access is an HSM facility for the seamless recall of files previously migrated from Novell server disk storage. When a file is removed from the LAN server a small stub is left in the local directory. Later if a user accesses the file by name it is automatically retrieved from a mainframe archive storage and transparently restored to the users disk in its original form.
A user prompt to allow the recall to proceed or fail is an option.

26. UPSTREAM Backup Dataset Migration
UPSTREAM efficient disk management facility that migrates backups from DASD to tape
Able to put backups for more than 1 server/instance on same tape set
UPSTREAM database updated to reflect new location of tape backups
Can restore a single file DIRECTLY from tape!
Transparent auto recall on client access is an HSM facility for the seamless recall of files previously migrated from Novell server disk storage. When a file is removed from the LAN server a small stub is left in the local directory. Later if a user accesses the file by name it is automatically retrieved from a mainframe archive storage and transparently restored to the users disk in its original form.
A user prompt to allow the recall to proceed or fail is an option.

27. FDR/UPSTREAM Security
Interfaces with mainframe security systems
ACF2, RACF, Top Secret
Interfaces with client security system
Netware Directory Services (NDS)
Registry
Active Directory
ACLs
UNIX
Permissions
Owners & Groups
Upstream was specially developed for PC/UNIX operating systems and supports important system files and objects such as NDS, Registry, Active Directory, ACLs, event logs

28. Disaster Strikes! With FDR/UPSTREAM You Have the Tools to recover
Reliable restores of data files and systems databases
Vaulting recovery
NDS
Active Directory
System State
Windows Automated System Recovery
UPSTREAM Rescuer

29. Off-Site Vaulting Powerful utility for offsite tapes
Creates secondary tape copy for DR to be stored in an offsite vault
For on-site recovery if primary backups are damaged or unusable
Can also be used for backups requiring long-term retention
Additional Copies
for
Off-site Vaulting
Vaulting copies of current backups at an offsite storage location is a prudent practice that insures business recovery even when a disaster damages locally stored backups or otherwise makes them unusable.
As a comprehensive business continuance system, FDR/UPSTREAM/SOS includes facilities to efficiently create those important secondary copies of backups for offsite vault storage.
Vaulting is a Powerful Utility for creation of offsite tapes and can create secondary tape copy for DR to be stored in an offsite vault, or for onsite recovery if primary backups are damaged or unusable.
For long term recovery

30. Summary The INNOVATION benefits
Mainframe Class File level Backup
INNOVATION technical support model
Reasonable License fees
The stability of the INNOVATION company