On Jun 15, 2011, at 4:49 AM, Mehdi Salehi wrote: > Hi, > Is the concept of bare machine recovery applicable for z/OS and other > mainframe operating systems like zLinux?
z/VM and, as far as I know, z/OS come with utilities designed to be booted when the system is down; think of a "boot floppy" or "boot CD-ROM" on a PC. The commercial backup programs available for those systems also typically come with stand-alone versions of the programs for the same purpose as well. In those cases, the premise is to recover a minimal version of the operating system so you can run your backup software and restore the rest of your system from your usual backup tapes. You've been asking a lot of questions lately about topics that probably are addressed at least as well on the IBM-MAIN and LINUX-390 mailing lists. I hope you're familiar with those lists as well. Linux-390 in particular is where I'd suggest you ask your question about how to restore a Linux image on the mainframe, especially if you don't run VM but instead run Linux in its own LPAR. > Thank you, > Mehdi Nick
