I am a VM sysprog, I don't need to remember all of OS extend acronyms. :) Two of our production Linux instances are VERY UN-busy at the time of our backups, and the third is brought down for the duration of the backup job. It is submitted from VM and returned to VM for post-processing. If the job does not come back in a specified amount of time, the Linux instance is restarted regardless. All VM and Linux volumes are linked READ-ONLY to the OS/390 guest so he cannot do anything naughty.
When we do come up at the hotsite, the linuxes do mention that their filesystems were not unmounted cleanly (for the ones that were still logged on) but the normal cleanup at IPL time has never failed. If they were to fail, I have a skeleton / filesystem that I can put in place and use TSM to restore from the OS/390 server. This is a long process but it does work at the DR site. /Thomas Kern /301-903-2211 > -----Original Message----- > From: Ledbetter, Scott E [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 17:03 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: CDL backup and copying the IPL record > > > DFDSS (OK, I know, it is DFSMSdss), should work if you don't > mind putting > the CDL volume online to OS390 to dump it to tape. I'd be a > little worried > about the state of a Linux file system dumped from OS/390 > unless it was > cleanly unmounted or mounted R/O to Linux at the time. Make > that a lot > worried. A lot can happen in the time it takes to dump a > volume to tape. >
