# Volume Backup dialog box

You use this dialog box to issue the DFSMShsm BACKVOL command to back up all eligible data sets on the selected volumes. To learn about the standard capabilities of a dialog box, see Standard tabs in the dialog boxes of the Storage Toolkit. The topic includes a link to the Reference guides for commands that are used in the Storage Toolkit.

The action supplies the following information to the service:

- Device Type (default device category, Type or DASD)
- Backup Type (incremental or full)
- Backup data sets not backed up in the last n days. (Range of n: 0-999)

For data sets not managed by SMS, you can target data sets that have not been backed up in the last n days, where n ranges from 0 to 999.