Hi David,

Thanks I agree and I have already started working on getting those packs
fixed up.

Thank You,

Terry Martin
Lockheed Martin - Citic
z/OS and z/VM Performance Tuning and Operating Systems Support
Office - 443 348-2102
Cell - 443 632-4191


-----Original Message-----
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of David Boyes
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 12:34 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: How to copy a disk using a z/Linux guest

On 8/16/10 11:10 AM, "Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR)"
<[email protected]> wrote:
 
> First, we do not count on Full pack backups for our restores normally
we
> use FDRUPSTREAM to backup the guests file systems on a daily and
weekly
> basis, however the guests are still running when this is done other
than
> the Data Base backups where the guest is shutdown and a full backup is
> taken of the Oracle data base using FDRUPSTREAM.

OK, if you're running the FDR/Upstream agent inside the guest, you
probably
are going to be OK. That satisfies the requirement of backing up the
systems
from within the guest, so the backup will likely be reasonably
consistent.

> Second, for this exercise there is no LVM involved these are just ECKD
> devices. So synchronization will be less of an issue for these guests
> and for this test.

*whew* LVM is a PITA for this sort of stuff. Necessary, but a PITA.

Still, once you get back, it's probably smart to fix those two packs.

-- db

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