Didn't mean to imply TSM required tape - only that it's supported... Scott Rohling
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Harder, Pieter < [email protected]> wrote: > Just a remark. TSM does *not* have a tape requirement. You can have a disk > only installation just fine. Do your first level backups to what your > standard disk for Linux uses. Then migrate to some cheap outside storage and > have that mirrored to a secondary location. My experience is that the > software side of TSM is lots cheaper than whatever hardware (tape or disk) > you need to get to reasonable (Terabyte scale) amounts of data. If you don't > need that scale just use some outside TSM on x86_64. > > Best regards, > Pieter Harder > > [email protected] > tel +31-73-6837133 / +31-6-47272537 > > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] Namens Scott > Rohling > Verzonden: vrijdag 8 juli 2011 17:41 > Aan: [email protected] > Onderwerp: Re: Linux backups and restores to/from tape > > The TSM product will do file level backups (with FCP attached tape) under > Linux on System z .. but it's not free. > > I think it's the tape part that's going to limit options.. if you could > deal with using disk storage for 'archive' purposes, then there are lots of > open source options.. everything from rdiff (as I recall - an rsync based > backup with delta archiving) and things like bacula. You could perhaps > combine this solution with physical backups to tape of the archive data on > disk? > > Scott Rohling > > On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Frederick, Michael < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > A question came up about getting an older version of a file on a Linux > > disk, which I was able to do by restoring the DASD that held the file in > > question to a temporary disk and then they could do whatever they liked > with > > the file, easy enough. It got me to thinking about, what would happen if > > this were to take place on an LVM? Having a dasd-level backup is likely > to > > be of limited use in this case, because you'd more than likely have to > > restore the entire LVM to a separate set of disks just to get at that one > > file. > > > > So does anyone know of a solution (free being better) that would do a > > file-level backup for zLinux to a tape? Or has anyone dealt with this > > problem before and had some other way around it? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Mike Frederick > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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/ > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/ > > Brabant Water N.V. > Postbus 1068 > 5200 BC 's-Hertogenbosch > http://www.brabantwater.nl > Handelsregister: 16005077 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
