Greg, The backup (Flash) will be done from the production Lpar. Because all the volsers on the backup copies are the same, we want to do the backups to tape on a separate lpar. I haven't worked with flashcopy before, so there may be something I am missing.
Eric ---- Greg Shirey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eric, > > Why do you want to do the backup (dump?) from a separate LPAR, if I may > ask? > > Greg Shirey > Ben E. Keith Company > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Eric Bielefeld > Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 9:59 AM > > We just installed a new Shark DS8100 with Flashcopy. I was looking for > information on setting up an Lpar to copy all of the Flashed disks to > tape. We back up all of our DASD every week. We would like to be able > to mount the flashed copies in a separate Lpar using the same volsers as > the original, and then back them up. I have searched for documentation > on setting up Lpars to do just that, and haven't found anything. We > want a simple Lpar, if possible using a one pack system. We use Zara > for tape management. -- Eric Bielefeld Systems Programmer Washington University St Louis, Missouri 314-935-3418 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
