About 6 weeks ago, I looked at Bacula. In the next couple months I will be getting back to our future tape backup methods.
By the end of Oct, I will know how Oracle 10g running on SLES9 under z/VM 5.1 works with mainframe tape drives. How does it handle multiple tape volumes? How does it work with an IBM VTS? Once I find solutions that handle Oracle 10g and an IBM VTS, (hopefully there will be at least one solution that meets this criteria), everything else should fall into place. (I'm dreaming) Even if VM could make FCP attached storage look like FBA devices to VSE (everything would be supported which would be great). I kind of doupt that the cost of converting all VSE systems from CKD to FBA would be worth the savings of the $25K Ficon adapter saved. All the JCL changes and resulting problems, would push me to just pay for the second adapter. Much less the conversion time. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/23/05 12:26 PM >>> On Sep 23, 2005, at 12:14 PM, Tom Duerbusch wrote: > I wasn't aware that VSE now supports native FCP adapters. If that is > so, and if you are at that level of VSE, then the dual adapters at > extra > cost argument is moot. > I think "that level of either VSE or z/VM": if you have z/VM 5.1, you could present FCP devices to VSE as FBA, and it should Just Work. > > I've put out the word that I want the the backing up of z/Linux in a > normal mainframe world, solved. We use Dynam for the VSE world. I've > asked CA for a z/Linux interface to Dynam. I've asked for a z/Linux > interface for VMBACKUP (or any other decent backup product on a file > level side). > How do you feel about Bacula? It can now write to ANSI or Standard Label tapes. It does file-level Linux backups. We've got some automation to let it talk to your (VM-driven) ATL, and there's work in progress to make Bacula able to really understand storage migration pools. Contact me or David off-list if you're interested in exploring this. 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
