James,
IBM should be able to connect your current Shark unit with
the new, replacement unit via ESCON/Fibre connections and image copy each
volume for you.
This is one way we migrate our customers from their current
DASD to our 9900 product line when we install our new hardware. Be sure to
ask your IBM support personnel about this migration option.
Raymond E. Noal
Lab Manager
Hitachi Data Systems
San Diego Facility
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-----Original Message-----
From: James Melin
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Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 10:38
AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Differences between std
format and CDL
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....?
