Robot/SAVE

Robot/SAVE Disaster Recovery Software
Robot/SAVE automates the routine (yet often complex) tasks of System i backup and recovery, saving you both time and money, while making the process safer and more reliable.

• Automates data backup, system restoration, and save media management
• Simplifies your backup procedures
• Eliminates media management errors
• Manages volumes on multiple System i servers from a single location
• Increases your operations productivity because your backups finish on time and restoration is automatic
• Provides a structured approach to data backups and comprehensive reports to meet SOX requirements
• Decreases the overall costs of running your System i

Back up your IBM i Systems

Back up libraries, objects, documents, all or part of the Integrated File System (IFS), and active Domino databases. You use the same techniques and procedures to define all your data backups. These procedures describe everything required to do a recurring backup, including customized media management procedures that eliminate errors.

Encrypt Critical Data
Encrypt data as it’s saved to tape, making your backup tapes as secure as your system. You specify what to encrypt—libraries, individual objects, object lists, IFS objects, or Domino databases—and the encryption process becomes part of your overall backup strategy. Restoration of encrypted data is transparent with Robot/SAVE.

New for Robot/SAVE 12: Streamline IFS Backups and Restores
Add flexibility and speed to your IFS backup process by backing up just what you need. With Robot/SAVE 12, you can back up the entire IFS, or specific directories. And, you can back up just the data you need for your critical software applications, like SAP. When you need to restore your data, Robot/SAVE offers you the same flexibility and speed.  

Save Media Management
Eliminate error-prone tape handling practices with Robot/SAVE’s save media management system. Define exact instructions to manage your tape movement; use auto-move processing to track tapes as they move from one location to the next; and generate reports to help you plan your media operations and provide a detailed audit trail of your media volumes.

Data Center Management
Manage your volumes across multiple systems. Robot/SAVE routes volume-related information in its database to all systems in the data center, and lets you perform volume management and reporting tasks from any system in the data center.

Centralized Scratch Pool
Create and maintain a centralized, yet distributed, scratch pool while ensuring tape integrity among the systems in your data center.

Guided Restoration
Robot/SAVE’s Guided Restoration process determines the most efficient order to restore libraries to minimize tape mounts and rewinds and lets you restore your entire system with the touch of one function key.

Object Archive
Robot/SAVE’s Object Archive helps you restore prior versions of libraries, database files, source members, documents, programs, object lists, IFS files, or Domino databases. Just locate the version you need. Robot/SAVE tells you the tape to mount and performs the restoration automatically.

Restricted State Utility
Robot/SAVE’s Restricted State Utility lets you schedule commands, such as SAVSYS or NONSYS, that need to run in a restricted state. The utility takes care of warning users that the system will be entering a restricted state, ends the system, runs the specified commands, and restarts the system.

Customized Backups with Robot/CORRAL
Robot/CORRAL, the object selection manager, builds a customized list of objects to save or restore. Three object selection methods—Automatic, Pathfinder, or Manual—allow you to specify selection criteria so you save or restore exactly what you need—every time. You can modify the list at any time or have Robot/CORRAL update the object list automatically. Robot/CORRAL is FREE with Robot/SAVE. 

Ad hoc Operations
Not all tape operations involve data backups. For example, commands often write data to media volumes outside of Robot/SAVE. Robot/SAVE monitors the volumes used in these ad hoc operations, preventing users from overwriting valid data; manages the expiration dates for the volumes; and releases expired volumes to the scratch pool. 

Reports
Robot/SAVE includes a comprehensive set of reports that document backup setup defaults, recovery procedures, media volume information; and your disaster plan.

Disaster Plan
Robot/SAVE helps you create a complete disaster plan that contains the information (including emergency contacts and critical supplies) that you need to recover from any emergency that disrupts your normal operations.

SOX Compliance
Robot/SAVE helps you comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act by providing a structured approach for backing up your data. Auditors can use its reports to verify where your backup media is located.

Automated Media Library (AML) Support
Robot/SAVE interfaces with several automated media library (AML) systems for completely unattended backups.

Robot/SAVE disaster recovery software backs up your System i and helps you recover your critical data in the event of a disaster. By combining Robot/SAVE with other products in the Robot Automated Operations Solution, you can save money, and enjoy all the benefits of automated operations by simplifying tasks, eliminating bottlenecks, speeding processing, reducing errors, and satisfying SOX auditors.

• Use Robot/SCHEDULE, the job scheduler and batch management system, with Robot/SAVE to schedule your backups and tape management procedures so they run unattended and error-free.
• Use Robot/ALERT, the system event notification software, with Robot/SAVE to alert an operator when a tape mount is needed or a device fails. You’ll know immediately when your system needs attention.
• Combine Robot/SAVE with Robot/REPORTS, the report management system, to back up archived reports exactly as you wish, providing flexibility to your archiving strategy.