In Recovering Your Entire System you learned how to generate and use the Recovering Your Entire System report to recover your entire system. This chapter provides information about how to selectively restore single objects or groups of objects. With BRMS, you can selectively restore system information, libraries, control groups, integrated file system objects, and other items. In case of disaster, a selective restore strategy allows you to recover critically needed applications and information prior to restoring the rest of your system.
There are several ways you can selectively recover items by using BRMS. The primary recovery command is the Start Recovery using BRM (STRRCYBRM) command. You can use other commands to facilitate the recovery of user profiles, objects, folders, and spooled files.
Many of the functions described in this chapter are available with the BRMS System i Navigator client. For detailed information about the BRMS System i Navigator client, see the IBM i Information Center.