On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 11:20, Sergey Korzhevsky wrote: > I've tried to backup z/os dasd (actually, get image of it) from linux but > with no success. >
> So, is it possible? I don't think you can. The Linux dasd driver only handles disks that have been formatted and allocated in a very specific way as dasdfmt and fdasd do it. I failed to get the right people to listen to provide relief for that. What I believe we need is a device driver that can read and write any ECKD disk like a tape. For customers with a larger investment in Open storage equipment this could be an attractive way to do full backup of the z/VM volumes (though a restore would probably need Linux native to get started). Rob
