> 1) Does that make sense to do? It makes sense to preserve the files, but you're going to spend about the same amount of effort implementing a file-level backup as you do getting this to work.
> 2) What's the best way to echo/cat the critical files to the VM SPOOLed > console log after every successful boot? Configure one of the unused syslog classes to log to /dev/console (and/or a remote network host running Arty's SYSLOGD code in a CMS virtual machine), and write a small script to run from init to use 'logger' to write the files to the appropriate syslog class. > 3) Is there a better way (without access to file-level backups, which we > don't have yet during a P.O.C.)? Setting up Amanda or Bacula is free and fairly straightforward, and if you dump only /etc on each guest (the important stuff lives in /etc), you should be able to dump to disk on a separate backup server instance, and make a mod 3 last for quite a while (assuming your VM LPAR doesn't have access to tapes). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
