We use innovation's FDR Upstream product which connects via TCPIP to a STC on our OS/390 partition who actually owns that tape drives.
This way we can do individual file restores as needed, and dr recovery is pretty simple. They also have a reasonably new DR recovery tool which in theory speeds up the DR recovery process using their backups. (We have not tried this out yet). ------------------------------------------- Jeremy Warren Sr. Systems Programmer KB Toy Stores mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@kbtoys.com Duane Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: Linux on cc: 390 Port Subject: [LINUX-390] PLanning for Z/VM and Linux <[EMAIL PROTECTED] IST.EDU> 02/25/2003 01:39 PM Please respond to Linux on 390 Port We are in the planning stages of installing Z/VM with the intent of installing Linux. How do other sites handle the backups done of the Linux virtual machines? Are the backups done from the VM side using DDR? Or are the backups done within the Linux virtual machine, some how giving tape access to the virtual machine? It has been long enough since I worked with VM, that I never became familiar with the Share File System. The thing that I remember about VM is that your files were secure until you allow someone else to link to your minidisk. IS that still the case? Do I need a security system on installed on VM? Duane
