DF/DSS should work. You'll probably have to specify ALLEXCP and ALLDATA, or do a physical dump instead of a logical dump of the volume.
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 10:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Backup possibilities under the 2.2.x kernal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >above for file-level backups. Amanda is probably the best bet here as >well, along with using DFDSS to do full volume dumps periodically with >the Linux system down for consistency sake. > So DFDSS works fine? When our dasd guy tried it on a linux volume, the program would return with a condition code 0... but after seconds (not 20 minutes or so). In MVS the dataset would show up, for example, LINUX.VOX6BC2.PART0001.NEW with all of its tracks allocated, but viewing the file would result in a message saying that the file was empty, which is why he thought DFDSS finished so quickly. So I resorted to OFFLINDR which works great, but if DFDSS will also work then he'd prefer to use that. Am I the only one who DFDSS didn't work for? I'm using a 2.4 kernel, btw, in an LPAR. ~ Daniel
