As far as having a working linux to use for restorations.... in the event
of that hardware error making the disk un-IPLable....
We put the 3 files needed to IPL from 'tape' out on a disk device that is
allocated to all defined guests. It contains the install setup stuff. I can
logon to a guest and type 'lin' and IPL the install system in fairly short
order. I imagine that it wouldn't be hard to craft a bona-fide rescue
system that would be generic enough for all guests, and small enough to not
take up a huge amount of disk.
I have never done this(our VM guy set it up with IBM when we got VM in
here) , but I'm sure other people on the list could certainly point out
what you would need to do to an install image to make it more of an
IPL-able rescute system.
Thomas Kern
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Amanda, Bacula and Tivoli Storage Manager client assume you have a
working linux system to use for your restorations. I had the bad luck
of a real hardware error during updating my maintenace server making
the DASD un-iplable. DDR makes for a fast restore in that case. I now
have a spare bootable minidisk for disaster maintenance purposes to add
belt to the suspenders.
/Tom Kern
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> 1) Amanda
> 2) Bacula
> 3) Shut the guests down and do DDR of the disks.
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> 1 or 2 are the most desirable. Note the recent posting we did for a
> tape
> mount daemon that lets Linux mount tapes via CMS commands.
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> Bacula now does ANSI and IBM SL tape labels, so it's an execellent
> choice.
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