Your concerns are VERY valid about DRA recovery. Maybe another angle would be to advise management about NOT being able to recover, its impact on business continuity, SARBOX legal and regulatory issues, ?????? That might loosen the purse strings a little.
Explore what the REAL costs and consequences being unable to recover would be. -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Luis La Torre Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 11:28 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Copying 3390-9 to 3390-3 Linux LVM under z/VM. We don't have any mod 9 available in the z/VM pool, all were re-allocated to the z/OS Adabas databases. We are trying to get more dasd, but approval is very slow and painful and management does not want to spend any money at all. I just want to thank everyone for their response, You people provided me with good ideas for now and the future. My main concern is to have a backup copy of the volume groups for disaster recovery purposes as soon as possible. Last weekend we almost had to do a full z/VM and Linux recovery. Thanks, Luis F. La Torre Database Administrator BAX Global Inc. 440 Exchange, Irvine Ca 92602 Phone: 714-442-7441 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stephen Frazier <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To tate.ok.us> [email protected] cc Sent by: Linux on 390 Subject Port Re: Copying 3390-9 to 3390-3 Linux <[EMAIL PROTECTED] LVM under z/VM. .MARIST.EDU> 02/13/2008 02:05 PM Please respond to Linux on 390 Port <[EMAIL PROTECTED] .MARIST.EDU> Would it not be much less trouble to change the backup volumes to 3390-9? Luis La Torre wrote: > Why?. because we have the z/VM and all Linux guests on 3390-3 volumes. And > for some reason our previous administrator defined the LVM on a > 3390-9, maybe he ran out of 3390-3. > > Anyway our current backup job using FLASHCOPY does not include mixing > device volumes. We do volume dumps using flashcopy and currently are > not backing up the LVM volumes - which is at 47gb. > My dasd administrator says we can't mix devices with flashcopy. > > Sincerely, > > Luis F. La Torre > Database Administrator > BAX Global Inc. > 440 Exchange, Irvine Ca 92602 > Phone: 714-442-7441 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Stephen Frazier Information Technology Unit Oklahoma Department of Corrections 3400 Martin Luther King Oklahoma City, Ok, 73111-4298 Tel.: (405) 425-2549 Fax: (405) 425-2554 Pager: (405) 690-1828 email: stevef%doc.state.ok.us ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
