Do not quite have a requirement for 24/7 but what is done is the Linux Systems are terminated for a very short time, all the z/VM volume containing the minidisk of Linux file systems are SNAPPED over to separate disks and the Virtual Linux machines are then brought back up. The outage is very small. Then we can take our time about backing up the z/VM-Linux volumes to our z/OS system which does all the heavy lifting with its great automation, etc.
Yes, for a whole bunch more money we could attempt to engineer 24/7, etc, but for almost no extra costs, this is very doable. jim ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
