> Does anyone have any examples of scripts that can look at the mounted file > systems, mount them RO serially or in logical groupings and cause a backup > to run, then re-mount them RW?
That's what Amanda does (and you don't have to go down to single user). Every so often you can take it down to get a DDR snapshot for DR, but for everyday backups, Amanda is a lot less disruptive. > Also, it is my understanding that with the advent of os/390 2.10 or is it > z/os 1.2? you could have volumes bigger than a 3390-9 in a shark disk box? > Does Linux currently support those larger volumes? Yes. -- db
