This new page is referenced by the Bucky Backup Fee Structure page. These are reasonably priced and an improvement over the Version 2 manuals. All the ADSM documentation is also available from IBM on the web in HTML or PDF form. ADSM reference manuals are also available from IBM in CD-ROM form for a nominal fee. The performance of this ADSM Version 3 server greatly exceeds the Bucky Backup ADSM Version 2 server that runs on the mainframe MVS platform.
Improved performance is a result of better hardware and software.
The mainframe does many things concurrently and is our rock solid production platform. Most of the capacity of the AIX Bucky Backup platform is dedicated to ADSM and Bucky Backup. Initial backups that once took days to complete using MVS now complete in one evening. ADSM Version 3 incorporates a new protocol for restores that eliminates entirely the initial directory processing for any restore that does not require it. A typical restore of an entire volume that might have taken 12 hours for directory processing followed by several hours of file restoration is now done in several hours.