I am liking the USB port idea even more. How cool would it be to walk into a D/R site with just a couple of thumb drives in your pocket to restore your whole z/VM system?
-----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System on behalf of Alan Altmark Sent: Thu 6/18/2009 5:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Using DVD to restore an existing z/VM? On Thursday, 06/18/2009 at 03:45 EDT, Dave Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > Alan, I said to simply document the procedure....not that the procedure > itself was simple....:-) I know what you said. :-) The procedure for building a DVD image includes tools that you don't have, so you would then ask for the tools. But the procedure and tools have value. And down the rabbit hole we go.... I KNOW how this story ends. :-) > Maybe the good Dr. Boyes could write up and submit the requirement to > WAVV....? You could, but I would like to gently suggest that it isn't going to happen. If you want to be able to have a system that is recoverable from the DVD drive, then that is the requirement to levy. And since it is a function of backup/DR, it properly belongs to the backup products. But keep in mind that its all part and parcel of the larger requirement to get z/VM to support storage devices other than SCSI disk, ECKD, FBA, and 3590 tape. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
