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 tapes uses for DR purposes are written on the IBM encrypting tape drives (I forget the IBM make/model). The gotchas are scheduling the shutdown of Linux guests on the IFL from your z/OS system. We use a well-defined window for full-volume backups. With that, I have not needed to use file-level restores at DR for my Linux guests but have tested recovering a complete Oracle data logical volume. By going with FCP connections you will not be able to perform z/OS backups, but you could do z/VM based full backups. File-level backups to z/OS is still good with this scenario.
/Thomas Kern /U.S. Dept of Energy /301-903-2211 (Office) /301-905-6427 (Mobile) On Fri, 1 May 2009 12:23:13 -0400, O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] <[email protected]> wrote: >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 moving toward FCP attached SATA drives for our Linux data. > >Any advice on DR set up gratefully appreciated. > >Dave O'Brien >NIH Contractor ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
