Would like some advice on ghosting our SuSE8 Linux image. I intend to usd
"dd" for this.

We have 16 x 3390-3 and we are currently using only 4 of them. At this
time I would like to ghost  the 4 volumes to another set of unused (out of
the 16) volumes so I can get a standby image to boot from.

Current usage is about 5+ GB on these 4 volumes.

volumes  0x2300 - 0x2303 (volgroup = Primary)  to be ghosted to 0x230A -
0x230D (volgroup = Secondary)

We now IPL from 0x2300.

Standby IPL device would be 0x230A

The ghosting can be  as frequent as daily but at least once a week.

After the ghosting, we can vary 0x230A - 0x230D offline and use DFDSS to
back these up.


I am also considering using 'netcat' to ghost over the network to an Intel
box (only to be used like a backup). This would not be used as a standby.
Rather we would ghost back to the mainframe volumes in the event of a
disaster.

For file backups, I could use SAMBA  / rsync / rdist


Any comments?

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