> Well in a perfect world, I'd be able to do file level backup > of a z/linux > guest from z/os and write that backup to a tape managed by > RMM in the 3494. > This is an imperfect world, however.
Well, a little more perfect than that. See my paper on using DASDtape with Amanda and z/OS DFHSM. You can do this now -- in fact, z/OS does all the physical tape operations, so you get to keep good old IBM labels, library management, DR planning, etc exactly as they are now. It'll cost you some disk space on the z/OS side, and the fun of getting DFhsm set up, but once it's up, it works pretty well -- and you don't have to restore an entire partition just to get one file. > I was looking at the possibility of something from the VM > side of things > that can simply backup a minidisk so that the restore can be > put anywhere, > at minidisk granularity but still catalog stuff in the z/os > RMM database. > Probably a kludge at best, impossible at worst. Well, none of the VM solutions would have access to the z/OS RMM catalog, as that's a z/OS-only thing and AFAIK, without something like VM:Tape, I don't think it's sharable in any meaningfull way (and VM:Tape is $$$). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
