We are in the process of replacing our IBM 2105 shark box because it has become.... hungry. Eating volumes left/right and sideways. 2-3 a week. IBM does not know why.
Since my one linux system was Suse 2.2, 7.0 August 2001 edtion and CDL wasn't available, it's not capable of being backed up with normal os/390 tools. IBM is going to replace it with a similar shark box, and I presume take the twithy unit back to the lab for horrible experimentation. Perhaps 72 GB drives vs the 36 GB units that are in there now. The thing is, we're not sure what tool IBM is going to use to move the data and were not sure if the linux volumes can even be moved in their native mke2fs format. Does anyone have any experience in this type of a situation, or am I completely frelled? I do have some 3590 tape drives I could back up to, but as yet have not configured anything. Had just been using tar and the like to back up changed files. What is the collective wisdom of the list on this....?
