Associate a local snapshot with a server file space

Use the snapshotroot option with the selective command in conjunction with an independent software vendor application that provides a snapshot of a logical volume, to associate the data on the local snapshot with the real file space data that is stored on the Tivoli® Storage Manager server. The snapshotroot option does not provide any facilities to take a volume snapshot, only to manage data created by a volume snapshot.

AIX® only: You can perform a snapshot-based selective backup by specifying the option snapshotproviderfs=JFS2.