I am just setting up something like this but using a z/OS NFS export as the Bacula file destination. That then lets DFDSS/HSM manage the backup files (and mirror them to DR).
On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 14:49 -0500, Adam Thornton wrote: > On May 8, 2006, at 2:19 PM, James Melin wrote: > > What I've never been able to figure out is how to tell z/VM that > > the backup process on z/OS is done and to either change runlevels > > or IPL the guest or > > what have you. > > > > Again daily system shutdowns are not suitable for a 24/7 production > > environment. So how to balance the need vs the reality is the real > > trick. > > "By doing file-level backups of the Linux guests" is the answer. I'm > not recommending daily system shutdowns by any means. I'm also > pointing out that DDR or its moral equivalent isn't the right answer > EITHER. If you do it that way, sooner or later you will end up with > data corruption. > > Here's one way you can do it with no additional licensing fees and no > new software from the z/OS or z/VM perspective. > > Install a Bacula instance. Have your Bacula SD use a big LVM disk > pool as its storage device. Arrange the scheduling so that the > Bacula job mounts the disk pool, runs its backup, and then unmounts > the disk pool when it's done, and further so that the Bacula backups > are done before your nightly volume dump happens. > > Then dump the disk pool volumes, but NOT the other volumes on your > Linux guests. Since they will be unmounted when the volume backup > runs you know that they are clean. To restore, restore THOSE volumes > and a basic Linux system with Bacula (which could be a separate DDR > image, if you like). Mount the LVM and then restore your remaining > guests from that pool. > > Didn't cost you an additional dime in software licensing fees. > > 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 > -- Jerry Whitteridge Safeway Inc. (925) 951 4184 "MMS <safeway.com>" made the following annotations. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Warning: All e-mail sent to this address will be received by the Safeway corporate e-mail system, and is subject to archival and review by someone other than the recipient. This e-mail may contain information proprietary to Safeway and is intended only for the use of the intended recipient(s). If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient(s), you are notified that you have received this message in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately. ============================================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
