try "man rsync" for starters, and look at the related topics. So one elephant says to another, "You'll never believe what happened last night. I was trying on Groucho Marx's pajamas--and he shot me!" Gordon Wolfe, Ph.D. (425)865-5940 VM Technical Services, The Boeing Company
> ---------- > From: James Melin > Reply To: Linux on 390 Port > Sent: Friday, October 8, 2004 11:13 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Moving an LPAR Linux to VM - Problem > > I know absolutely NOTHING about rsync...... Any good tutorials? > > > > > "Post, Mark K" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > m> To > Sent by: Linux on [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 390 Port cc > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > IST.EDU> Subject > Re: Moving an LPAR Linux to VM - > Problem > 10/08/2004 01:06 > PM > > > Please respond to > Linux on 390 Port > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > IST.EDU> > > > > > > > How will the "shipping" be done? Over the network? If so, you'll be > chewing up even more bandwidth than rsync will, since "dd" will copy all > the > blocks in the file system, even the unused ones. If not over the network, > then never mind. > > > Mark Post > > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James > Melin > Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 2:00 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Moving an LPAR Linux to VM - Problem > > > I am making a file system image of /dev/dasd{x} using dd and shipping that > file over to the target sytem work volume and Then mounting it on the > loopback device and doing a tar -clSp per the move file system howto. I > figure if it works for making iso images of CD's, then it should work for > this > > > > > > "Post, Mark K" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > m> To > Sent by: Linux on [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 390 Port cc > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > IST.EDU> Subject > Re: Moving an LPAR Linux to VM - > Problem > 10/08/2004 12:54 > PM > > > Please respond to > Linux on 390 Port > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > IST.EDU> > > > > > > > I was thinking more of rsync without any mounting at all. > > If the volumes are mis-sized and z/VM won't work with them as they are, I > don't see too many options that don't involve moving the data twice. Either > use afio to dump everything to tape and read it back in on the z/VM guest, > or use some sort of network-based copying. I use rsync a lot and am very > comfortable with it. There are likely better ways of moving many GB of > data > over the network, but I can't offer any personal experience there. > > If moving the data multiple times doesn't bother you, then get some > additional volumes that are accessible from both systems, create file > systems on them from the z/VM guest (just to make sure the guest will work > with them properly), and move the data from LPAR disks to the intermediate > disks and then to z/VM guest disks. > > > Mark Post > > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James > Melin > Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 1:34 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Moving an LPAR Linux to VM - Problem > > > I have a GBE. You thinking NFS mount them?> > > Is there a way to just have z/OS native LPAR linux volumes show up readable > by linux in VM? > > > > > > "Post, Mark K" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > m> To > Sent by: Linux on [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 390 Port cc > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > IST.EDU> Subject > Re: Moving an LPAR Linux to VM - > Problem > 10/08/2004 11:46 > AM > > > Please respond to > Linux on 390 Port > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > IST.EDU> > > > > > > > How much network bandwidth do you have between the Linux LPAR and the Linux > Guest, compared to how much data you need to move? > > > Mark Post > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
