If you are running under zVM, then you can use DDR to back up the current disks to tape, then restore on the new DASD when it comes in. DDR does a complete track-for-track copy and doesn't care about content at all as long as it is readable. Or use OFFLINDR to do the backup and restore. http://www.clueful.co.uk/mbeattie/s390/offlindr.jcl
-- John McKown Senior Technical Specialist UICI Insurance Center Applications & Solutions Team +1.817.255.3225 > -----Original Message----- > From: James Melin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 10:59 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Migration of NON CDL volumes to new disk array > > > We are having our 'shark' box replaced with a similar model because it > keeps killing drives. IBM has replaced almost 30 disks on the > thing since > we bought it. They don't want us to have it in the field as > it's some how > wonky. So they're giving us a new one, and hauling our old > one back to the > lab. > > When I first built this one Linux LPAR (SuSE 7.0) I didn't > know about CDL. > So I used the standard Linux layout. > > We are unsure whether or not the tool IBM will use can cop > non CDL Linux > volumes at all. > > My thought was to re-configure the LPAR with the dasd > addresses of the new > disk as well as the current disk and just use dd, ( I think?) > to copy the > volumes and do whatever is necessary with silo to make it so > I can IPL from > the new DASD. > > Is there a way to make the new file system CDL and still copy > the whole > system and make it IPL-able? Is there a way to convert the > existing FS to > CDL without reformatting? >
