On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 20:32, Ranga Nathan wrote: > After the ghosting, we can vary 0x230A - 0x230D offline and use DFDSS to > back these up.
If you plan to do this while the Linux box is online you're going to have corrupt disk images at the other end. Most of the time it's nothing that an fsck won't cure but it's not really a good idea to snapshot a mounted filesystem. > 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 Why not use Amanda and save yourself the pain of rolling your own network backup system? Adam ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
