International Business Machines Corporation

Shannon Lyn Gallaher

Glenn Randle Wilcock

Stanley Mark Kissinger

Snehal S Bhakta

Robert Stanley Gensler, Jr

James B Cammarata

A host system communicates to a production system that performs point-in-time copy operations to a backup system to generate a logical corruption protection (LCP) copy of a production copy that comprises a data set, wherein the point-in-time copy operations perform copying at a media level in which physical tracks are copied from the production system to the backup system, and wherein the point-in-time copy operations avoid using information on the data set or file structure that is included in a media on which the data set is stored. In response to a detection of a logical corruption in the data set, a recovery application executing in the host system recovers the data set from the LCP copy.

Data set recovery from a point-in-time logical corruption protection copy

Provided are a computer program product, system and method for data storage volume record management for application-level recovery in accordance with the present description. In one embodiment, logical volume movement is addressed when performing enterprise application recovery. In one embodiment, a host-based recovery product in accordance with the present description, can detect logical volume movement from one physical device to another and proactively prevent application level recovery that potentially may result in data loss. In one embodiment, a time-based capturing of pairings of logical and physical volume identifiers or descriptors within storage configuration records and sub-records are used to surgically recover volumes of an application from enterprise level protection copy of physical media. This history of pairings facilitates many types of logical volume to physical media remapping, such as the regular migration of data to replacement storage controllers which can occur at various times.

Data storage volume record management for application-level recovery

Embodiments relate to a system, program product, and method for dynamically capturing environmental configuration changes related to applications such that application-level recoveries may be performed from enterprise-level image copy backups.

Application-level recovery from an enterprise-level image copy

A method is now provided that improve backing up data sets. Each database transaction is registered to a central repository prior to starting the database transaction, each database transaction comprising a plurality of writes to be executed for a database application on a database, and quiescing all database transactions registered to the central repository to thereby wait for all ongoing writes of the database transactions registered to the central repository to complete and to release control of the database to the database application.

Methods, systems, and physical computer storage media for backing up a database

A method is now provided that improve backing up server data sets. Each server database transaction is registered to a central server repository prior to starting the database transaction, each database transaction comprising a plurality of writes to be executed for a database application on a database, and quiescing all database transactions registered to the central server repository to thereby wait for all ongoing writes of the database transactions registered to the central server repository to complete and to release control of the database.

Methods, systems, and physical computer storage media for backing up a server database

Methods, systems, and physical computer storage media are now provided that improve backing up data sets. Each database transaction is registered to a central repository prior to starting the database transaction, each database transaction comprising a plurality of writes to be executed for a database application on a database, receiving a first signal indicating a start of a backup application on the database, and quiescing all database transactions registered to the central repository to thereby wait for all ongoing writes of the database transactions registered to the central repository to complete and to release control of the database to the database application.

Systems and physical computer storage media are now provided that improve backing up data sets. Each database transaction is registered to a central repository prior to starting the database transaction, each database transaction comprising a plurality of writes to be executed for a database application on a database, receiving a first signal indicating a start of a backup application on the database, and quiescing all database transactions registered to the central repository to thereby wait for all ongoing writes of the database transactions registered to the central repository to complete and to release control of the database to the database application.

Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for converting backup copies of objects created using a first backup program to backup copies created using a second backup program. A plurality of backup copies of versions of an object are created using a first backup program, wherein the object has an object name. The first backup program is used to restore at least one of the backup copies to a restored version of the object having a name different from the object name. A second backup program is used to create a backup copy of each restored version of the object. A name of a designated object is assigned to each backup copy created using the second backup program. Metadata of each backup copy created using the second backup program is updated with metadata for the designated object.

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Shannon Lyn Gallaher