Yes, I have booted off the backup disks and IPL's successfully and then checked the data. We do the backups off hours so there is less activity. But we know there is a possibility of this process being fuzzy or somewhat because of caching.
But it has worked for our environment. Thanks, Detro From: RPN01 <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 12/17/2009 12:56 PM Subject: Re: Backup procedure for Linux Sent by: Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> You may find your backups to be inconsistent or unstable this way, as Linux buffers things in storage, so the disk image taken by the snapshot may not be complete at the moment you flash. Have you tried mounting and looking over the data on the backup disks as yet? -- Robert P. Nix Mayo Foundation .~. RO-OE-5-55 200 First Street SW /V\ 507-284-0844 Rochester, MN 55905 /( )\ ----- ^^-^^ "In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, theory and practice are different." On 12/17/09 12:50 PM, "Gary Detro" <[email protected]> wrote: > The approach we have taken is to give the machine duplicate mdisk 150-155 > (base disk) and then B150-B155 (backup disks) and do a flashcopy of the base > disks to the backup disks. From another user running CMS programmable > operator. I do this without stopping the linux guest system and it has been > recoverable each time we have tested. > > > Thanks, > > Detro > > > > > > > > > From: Stephen Frazier <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Date: 12/17/2009 12:45 PM > Subject: Re: Backup procedure for Linux > Sent by: Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> > > > > > Romanowski, John (OFT) wrote: >> > Are you asking how to make the script launch automatically when the >> minidisk attach event occurs? or ?? >> > >> > > No, what I am asking is what should I put in the script to be able to > back up everything needed to do a restore in another virtual machine. > > -- > 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 > <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 [attachment "image.gif" deleted by Gary Detro/Dallas/IBM]
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