Re: Moving a guest to new DASD

[Loren Charnley, Jr.]

The dump all / restore all is definitely for tape usage.  I was forced to tape because of changing CPU as well as changing DASD storage array.   Loren Charnley, Jr. IT Systems Engineer Family Dollar Stores, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (704) 847-6961 x 2000 From: Paul Raulerson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 4:11 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Moving a guest to new DASD   If the disk has been formatted previous, using CPFMTXA or CPVOLUME, it will remain usable for Linux no matter how many times you change or rearrange mini-disks on it. (You do have the the first cyl allocated to $ALLOC, right? :)   You just need to dasdfmt the beasties each time you change them. The other key is to be sure to dasdfmt them as cdl - compatible disk layout. That is the default, so you would have to intentionally change it to do otherwise. Now, a dump z/VM question - with DDR, I usually link the minidisks I am copy to copy and do a COPY ALL. I saw in a previous message that someone was doing a DUMP ALL and RESTORE ALL. My limited understanding is that DUMP and RESTORE only seem to work to tape - is that correct? Or is there an easier way to copy volumes around lurking in there somewhere???  I *never* have trouble with the COPY ALL bit. -Paul