Recovering Data Sets

Data set recovery is the process of copying a backup version back to a user DASD volume. Anywhere from one to 64 individual data set recovery tasks can be performed concurrently, as defined by the installation.

A storage administrator can enter a data set recover command to perform the following recovery tasks:

Recover the latest data set version of any data set implicitly from a dump or an incremental backup volume
Recover an explicit data set version from a dump or an incremental backup volume

Users can enter data set recover commands to recover only their own data sets, either the latest, or a specific version. The data recovered can come from either dump or incremental backup volumes.