On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:43:41 -0500, McKown, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is there any reason that IDCAMS EXPORT TEMPORARY will not work to create >a backup of an unmounted zFS container file? Or should I use DFDSS? What >about CA's FAVER VSAM backup tool? > >-- The DFS zFS admin guide says to use DFDSSdss since it automatically quiesces the zFS aggregate. But if it is unmounted, the quiesce is not an issue. There is a Redbook (z/OS Distributed File Service zSeries File System Implementation - SG24-6580-01) that talks about other options including IDCAMS REPRO or creating a clone as a backup file system. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS and OS390 expert at http://searchDataCenter.com/ateExperts/ Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
