Our Linux Operating System under zVM is up and running, We have installed an Oracle database application on this image. The Oracle database is shutdown or in read-only mode and zOS or zVM performs a flashcopy of the Linux volumes (zVM minidisks. Is this a crash consistent backup of all the Linux DASD volumes? Is there a data integrity exposure and how significant is it when compared to other operating systems like zOS or zVM? The DASD volumes are defined as ext3.
Let's suppose that there is a data integrity issue, then how are we suppose to provide Global Mirroring (PPRC-xd) using TPC Replication creating consistency groups every 30 secs? How much capacity do you lose when defining Linux DASD volumes(ECKD) as minidisk under zVM? How much capacity do you lose when defining Linux DASD volumes (SCSI-ZFCP) at FBA 4k blocksizes? Our customer would like to automate backups using the following techniques: Please comment. (1) Quiese or shutdown Oracle Database under a Linux Guest. Flashcopy all Linux volumes (from zOS) Backup all Flashcopy volumes via DFSMSdss Full volume physical dump (from zOS) (2) Provide TPC Replication Global Mirroring for all Linux volumes (3) Provide TSM BA client to provide backups at a file level (4) Is there a Tivoli Data Protection Product for Databases on the Linux platform? Ruddy A. Melancon Finance Department - ISD State of Alabama Suite 102 64 North Union Street Montgomery, AL 36130 Office 334.353.7275 Fax 334.240.3177 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
