On 10/8/07, Grzegorz Powiedziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Such cloning between two VM-machines or even LPARs in one mainframe > would be very easy... but between two mainframes? > (ah, on the second mainframe I don't have the tape drive).
I'm surprised about the challenge you have been given. The common way to move operating system and applications from one mainframe to the other is by having the DASD attached to both machines, at least for some period of time. Most installations with multiple mainframes connect their DASD subsystems to all physical machines to simplify systems management. But there may be access restrictions to separate production and test data, or whatever applies. You probably should verify whether this really has not been done in your shop too (so that you could have a few volumes for transfer of the data). If it cannot be done that way (for example due to geographical conditions or lack of channel adapters) my recommendation would be to simply use the DVD to install a small starter system or bring up a rescue system on the new machine. When you have that, you can use Linux tools to transfer the data from one site to the other (e.g. tar over ssh). If you transfer files rather than blocks, you also need to run zipl after you copied the files. There are several Open Source projects and commercial solutions that deal with deployment on discrete servers (like SystemImager). Some of these solutions can burn a DVD with the customized installation for one specific target machine (or sometimes combined with a data on USB or network to customize). From what I have seen, those solutions don't work for Linux on System z. There probably has not been much demand for that because they solve problems that we normally don't have on the mainframe. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
