> Hi Folks, > > I know this has been asked before so please forgive the > redundancy, but is > anybody actually running NATIVE Linux/390 backups and if so > what software > are you using to do it?
Amanda. > Are there native Linux/390 tape commands like the CMS TAPE and VMFPLC2 > commands? mt to do basic tape manipulation, dump/tar/cpio to write data to the tape. > And (finally!) is there a way to pass a CP command up to the Linux/390 > virtual machine running under VM (so, for example, my backup > process running > on Linux/390 could cause the Linux/390 virtual machine to > issue CP SMSG > VMTAPE MOUNT SCRATCH 500 (RETPD 30 or something like that)? You can use Neale's hcp driver to do this, or we wrote a little socket widget to do it that is a little less wide open on the command syntax (not a slight on Neale's code, but designed for a more specific purpose). -- db
