On Monday, 05/08/2006 at 02:50 EST, James Melin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OUr VM expertise here is(was) extremely limited. IBM Helped us install it. > After it was the "Here's some books. Here's our Number. Have a nice day" > type of things, so being neophytes, we didn't realize such was possible untl we > hired the guy with 7 years VM experience.
Rule #12: Hire the guy with 7 years VM experience *before* you start making long-term decisions about how to manage your VM system and its precious cargo. I sincerely hope that IBM didn't leave the County with the impression that fuzzy backups are sufficient. > We've been running fuzzy backups from day 1. Good practice? No. But Again I > have no idea whatsoever how to communicate with a linux guest from z/OS. > We also don't want to take WebSphere down for the time it takes to backup and > we do NOT have flashcopy. (too much money). We are not, (and I'm told > WILL not be) running PROP - which is what I beleive would solve this issue to a > great deal. TANSTAFFL, Jim. (I hear a ticking sound coming from your backup tapes....) You can invest money in commercial packages or money in manpower to build and maintain your own. Or money in manpower and consultant fees when the restores mechanically work but the servers won't run. :-( Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
