On Monday, 07/24/2006 at 08:31 EST, "Stahr, Lea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I run SuSE SLES 8 under ZVM 5.1 in an IFL. The DASD are in a SAN that is > also accessed by ZOS. Backups are taken by ZOS using FDR full volume > copies on Saturday morning (low usage). When I restore a backup, it will > not boot. The backup and the restore have the same byte counts. Linux > support at MainLine Systems tells me that he has seen this before at > other customers. What is everyone using for Linux under ZVM backups? > HELP! My backups are no good!
Did you shutdown your Linux servers before you took the backups? The archives are filled with discussions about the need to shutdown your Linux servers before performing an external media-level backup. Either shut them down or do your backups from within Linux. If you have fast copy services on your dasd, you can use those to reduce the amount of down time if you choose to do an external backup (e.g. IBM Flashcopy). Building clustered solutions allows you to shutdown a member server for backup without taking out the service. The same issue is present if you have shared LUNs in a distributed environment. You can't use Server B to backup a LUN actively being used by Server A. 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
