Planning for backup and recovery

Developing backup and recovery procedures at your site is vital to avoid costly and time-consuming losses of data. IBM® MQ provides means for recovering both queues and messages to their current state after a system failure.

Recovery procedures

Develop the following procedures for IBM MQ:

Creating a point of recovery.
Backing up page sets.
Backing up CF structures.
Recovering page sets.
Recovering from out-of-space conditions ( IBM MQ logs and page sets).
Recovering CF structures.

See Administering IBM MQ for z/OS® for information about these.

Become familiar with the procedures used at your site for the following:

Recovering from a hardware or power failure.
Recovering from a z/OS component failure.
Recovering from a site interruption, using off-site recovery.