Mainframe based TSM server and DR?

2009-05-01 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
Is anyone using a Mainframe based TSM server to recover Linux guests at DR? Any problems or pitfalls to be aware of? Hitherto we were planning on using FDR full volume backups but the Linux folks decided that even 50GB Mod-54s would be too small and too much trouble to administer so we are

Re: Mainframe based TSM server and DR?

2009-05-01 Thread Thomas Kern
We use z/OS facilities to perform the full volume backup/restore of ALL of our data (z/OS, z/VM and Linux). We then use TSM on z/OS for file-level recovery of data for LOTS of servers (z/Linux, Linux/x86, Sun, AIX, Windows). It works fairly well if you have enough horsepower and tape drives. All