On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 12:47, Bennie Hicks wrote: > Not sure why you would want to
You would want to when you have your backup infrastructure on Open devices and the need to backup a few z/VM volumes (obviously not the ones that hold the Linux minidisks, but rather the MAINT disks) is easier to do in the open environment. That would be good enough for the disks that you don't need to get Linux running. I can even see how you could shutdown z/VM, bring up Linux in LPAR and make full backups of your z/VM system packs. Same way to recover from a serious incident (even if it would take an hour or so to install a new Linux server from CD). But sure, when your backup investments are in mainframe equipment and staff, then your options are different. Rob
