So, as with many people, my dongle is running out soon. I have several VM systems.
So I'm dumping all my disks to AWS-format emulated tape files, in the hope that someday down the road I will be able to restore them to something else. I chose awstape rather than faketape because of its better interoperability (e.g. PIPE DEBLOCK AWSTAPE). To do this in an automated fashion, I've written a Rexx script to walk through my DASD, define spanning MDISKs, and do a DDR dump. Yes, I'm going to have to go back with standalone DDR and do my sysresses and do spxtape to get my spool, but this gives me a decent first cut of everything else (which is, to be frank, mostly logged-off Linux guests). The script relies on the fsihost command to send commands to the Linux host and receive replies, and on a couple helper scripts on the Linux side. These enable me to create new awstape volumes as I go, and to gzip them once done (since I don't have disk for 160 mod-3s unless I compress them; most of them are compressing pretty well). If there is interest, I can either email these things out to people, or (perhaps more usefully) put them up on our website. As written it's pretty specific to my system (that is, I assume all the DASD is in a contiguous range and you can just specify the start and end volumes, and I assume that tapes are in /faketape, and that you want them named <devno>.aws), but it's fairly easy to change if you know even a little Rexx and shell scripting. Is there interest? Adam ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
