Changing backup control group properties

Backup control groups contain information about what, where, and when objects are being saved. You can change the properties associated with a control group.

To view or change the properties of a control group, follow these steps:

Select Backup, Recovery, and Media Services > Backup Control Groups.
Select the control group you want to change and select the Properties action item.
On the Backup Control Group Properties page, select from the following options to change backup control group activities:

Before: Specifies what activities should occur before the save operation runs. These settings prepare your system for the save operation. You can specify commands to run before the save operation begins, whether to sign off interactive users, and whether to shut down integrated servers, hosted logical partitions, TCP/IP servers, and Lotus® servers.
What: Controls the items to save and whether to unmount the user-defined file systems before the control group runs. You can select Advanced to specify more detailed information about the items you are backing up, or select Change All Activities to change all the actions for the saved items that are associated with this control group. You can customize the columns, or search and filter the items shown on this page.
Where: Specifies where you want to save items in this control group. This includes the media policy that you would like to use with this control group for full save operations, the minimum and maximum number of device resources to be used in a parallel save operation, whether you want to have a serial save operation, how devices are selected for save operations using this control group, and whether you want the items in this control group to be saved on new volumes or to be added to media that already contains active files.
Activity: Changes values associated with save activity for the entire control group. This includes whether to override the backup activity and retention settings in the control group every time the control group is run or scheduled, the type of changes-only save operation that occurs for every save item in this control group, and whether to force a full save after the specified number of days has passed.
After: Specifies what activities should occur after the save operation runs. These activities are performed on your system after the save operation is completed. You can specify commands to run after the save ends, where you want the last volume used in the save operation to be positioned when the save operation ends, whether to automatically save the media information needed for recovery each time a save operation is performed using this control group, and the name of the object list for which you want to check journaling status.
Power down: Specifies how you want the system to be powered down after the control group runs.
Job queues: Specifies the job queues that you want to hold before a save operation runs with this control group and want to release after the operation ends.
Subsystems: Specifies the subsystems that you want to stop before the save operation begins and want to start after the operation is completed.