We use CA's VMBACKUP to get weekly full and daily incremental (your z/VM sync-point) backups of z/VM CMS minidisks and SFS filepool. Not much changes daily on our z/VMs running just Linux guests.
Daily, we also make a IPL-able one-tape disaster backup holding the minimum z/VM stuff needed to do a bare-metal restore of enough z/VM to run VMBACKUP to restore the rest from weekly/daily backups: we can restore z/VM to the previous night's backup. A share-able, read-only dasd-based (image backed up by VMBACKUP) Linux rescue system lets us do parallel bare-metal restores of SAN-, dasd-, or mixed-SAN-dasd Linux guests from each Linux guest's TSM backups. If you don't have any tape drives available to z/VM daily for a brief window it's hard to get that z/VM sync-point management wants. We share a pool of VTS (virtual) tape drives with z/OS and z/VM LPARS. Good luck. -------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail, including any attachments, may be confidential, privileged or otherwise legally protected. It is intended only for the addressee. If you received this e-mail in error or from someone who was not authorized to send it to you, do not disseminate, copy or otherwise use this e-mail or its attachments. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete the e-mail from your system. -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Mitchell Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 9:23 AM To: [email protected] Subject: z/VM Daily Snyc Point We have a very simple z/VM environment. Linux guests running WebSphere. No database's on the IFL. Our current backup process occurs on Sunday night. Stop VM, allocate Volumes to z/OS, do full volume backups, release Volumes, Start VM. We also back up the linux filesystems with Tivoli nightly. Currently the applications running on WebSphere have no 'up' requirement for Sunday evening. Now Mgt wants to take a 'daily' sync point of the z/VM vols. Obviously doing the 'weekly' process is not an option. We do NOT have any tape drives dedicated to z/VM, nor are there any available that are capable of supporting daily use. What are other shops doing for daily snyc points? Any and All thoughts/suggestions are appreciated. Thanks. Steve Mitchell Sr Systems Software Specialist Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas (785) 291-8885 'There are no degrees of Honesty-you're either Honest or you're not! CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email message and any attachments are for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain proprietary, confidential, trade secret or privileged information. Any unauthorized review use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited and may be a violation of law. If you are not the intended recipient or a person responsible for delivering this message to an intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message
