James Melin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So my options for backing things up are > 1) Tar critical directory trees on a daily, weekly and > monthly basis, FTP > them to the HFS on s/390 so they get backed up by existant things. > 2) Get NFS working on S/390 and Linux so that S/390 can mount > my Linux file > system and back it up.
Just remember that "tar" and NFS don't cover all the bases. For example, what happens if you get a head crash on your Linux sysres pack? How do you get your system up far enough to restore everything from your OS/390-side backups? Ever more fun: How do you IPL Linux at all if the tracks OUTSIDE the /dev/dasd<x>1 filesystem have been damaged? You really need to dump the underlying block device, at least once in a while. The traditional tool is "dd". It doesn't give you much help or documentation, but the price is in your range :-) > I'm In Hell. "Hell is a city much like London" -- Percy Bysshe Shelley Ross Patterson Computer Associates
