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
