About This Guide

This user guide is a reference to Robot Save, the complete backup, recovery, and media management software for your IBM i servers. The guide describes Robot Save program features, commands, the user interface, and provides some examples of how you can use them to automate your disaster protection and media management tasks.

Who Should Use This Guide

This user guide is for IBM i users who are responsible for setting up and performing backup/recovery and media management tasks on your systems. This can be an operator or data center manager. You should be familiar with the following:

• Your company’s disaster recovery needs. Use this information to determine the data that needs to be backed up and develop a save strategy.

• The window available for a backup on a nightly, weekly, and monthly basis.

• Your data center’s hardware configuration and available devices. You must know this information to set up Robot Save properly in a data center.

• IBM i backup and recovery procedures and principles.

• Basic IBM i operations.

• Other Robot software installed on your systems.

How This Guide is Organized

This user guide is organized into the following sections. Each section begins with a description of the topic, followed by a discussion of the user interface panels and how to complete them to set up each Robot Save function. The panel descriptions provide detailed information on valid values, the function of each field, and any additional information that can help you when using Robot Save. The topics within each section follow the Robot Save menu system.

• Getting Started

• System Setup

• Backup Classes

• Backup Sets

• Backup Operations

• Robot Save Restricted Save Utility (RSU)

• Save Media Management

• Object Archive

• System Restoration

• Reports

• Disaster Planning

• Volume Management

• Data Sets

How to Use This Guide

This user guide is not meant to be read topic for topic. Instead, you should become familiar with the introductory material to get a feel for the product and to think about how you plan to use it. Afterwards, when you are setting up Robot Save (or for more detailed information anytime), refer to the appropriate section of the guide for reference.

You can also access help that is built into the green screen interface on any panel or command prompt by pressing F1.

Additional Support

If you don't find the answers you need in this user guide, try Robot Technical Support. Here you can find additional information in the Robot Support Self-Service topics or use the live chat window. You can also find our support email address and the phone numbers to contact a Technical Consultant.