On Tuesday, 09/21/2010 at 10:52 EDT, KEETON Dave * SDC <[email protected]> wrote: > The guests that the 2nd-level system is running are CMS users and > applications. It seems logical to me that if a weekly backup was > scheduled when the users are not online and working, the system could be > quiesced and backups could be taken. This is what they did when the > system was moved to our z10. They logged off all non-system users and > did DDR backups. When we restored to our system, it came up without > issue.
Absolutely. If the system is truly quiesced (no user, other utility, or spool activity) when you take live backups, the only thing that will happen is that you have to FORCE start the system since the spool warm start data will not be valid. Alan Altmark z/VM and Linux on System z Consultant IBM System Lab Services and Training ibm.com/systems/services/labservices office: 607.429.3323 [email protected] IBM Endicott
