Copy Services

This topic provides information to start and later manage your data using Copy Services functions.

• Getting started with Copy Services
  This topic provides information about requirements and guidelines for using the point-in-time copy and remote mirror and copy features of Copy Services.
• Adding a Copy Services 2105 domain to a storage complex
  Complete this task to set up a Copy Services 2105 domain using the DS Storage Manager.
• FlashCopy
  This section contains a list of DS Storage Manager tasks that help you create, monitor, and manage your FlashCopy^® operations.
• Global Mirror
  This topic provides information to help you get started using Global Mirror functions. Global Mirror asynchronously copies data from a host to a remote site, and maintains data on a storage unit at the remote site.
• Metro Mirror
  This topic provides information to help you get started and later manage your data using Metro Mirror functions. Metro Mirror is a function for application data recovery, but also for failover to remote sites for disaster recovery, remote migration of data, and off-site backups.
• Paths
  Before you can create Metro Mirror and Global Mirror volume paths, you must create paths. Paths are needed to communicate between the volume pairs and to copy data from the source volume to target volume.