On Friday, 01/11/2013 at 09:29 EST, Rob van der Heij <[email protected]> wrote: > Anyone doing his Linux backups (and restore) with DFSMSDSS maybe? > > A friend wanted to start using EAV and defined some 170G disks, > through DEVNO managed on z/VM. And while it seems the backup may have > worked, the restore certainly doesn't and complains with ADR024E and > some strange cylinder range. I'm told the big disks go in cylinder > managed space rather than track managed, but my source did not have > APAR or further detail. > > The customer is reluctant to put his crown jewels on a disk with no > backup. Anyone got the recipe for backup & restore?
*Datasets* on MVS can, if EAS-eligible, be allocated by SMS out of cylinder-managed space (i.e. cylinders > 65519), but it doesn't really have anything to do with an image copy. Your friend should probably open up a PMR. Alan Altmark Senior Managing z/VM and Linux Consultant IBM System Lab Services and Training ibm.com/systems/services/labservices office: 607.429.3323 mobile; 607.321.7556 [email protected] IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
