>>> On 4/13/2011 at 04:51 PM, Tom Duerbusch <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been in a management meeting discussing tape backup for zLinux (about > time). > > I agreed to the following and now time to see if it is doable. > > As a Proof of Concept: > > 1. Take one of our IBM 3590 E11 drives, detach it from our current > Controller. > 2. Attach the drive to a fibre channel (was FICON but reconfigured as FCP). > > Access the tape drive for backup/restore purposes from multiple Linux images > (we will manually make sure that only one image is actively using the drive > at any one time). > > When we are satisfied that all of this works, put everything back the way it > was. > > This will be done over one or more weekends.
As David mentioned, you might have a problem doing that without changing the tape drive controller to be a SCSI one. The good news is, if you're not going to be using TSM to do this, it doesn't matter. Linux will happily talk to a FICON attached tape drive. The SCSI attached tape requirement is from TSM, not Linux. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
