> Just curious, could this functionality be used somehow to allow for a > **consistent** disk snapshot using flashcopy for a live Linux guest? What I > mean is that currently, we have to shutdown the guest, do the flashcopy and > then restart the guest. Is there a way we can tell the Linux guest to freeze, > take a snapshot of the disks and then resume?
You can always log in and pause the guest, but that won't flush data in memory to disk where flashcopy can get at it. You'd still have to do file-level backups inside the guest to get that. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
