try cramming it into the existing rescue or install media initrd ?

I did that with a TSM agent and it worked OK. You may have to manually copy
a couple additional libraries into the ramdisk to support the package, but
it //should// work.

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Neale Ferguson <[email protected]>
wrote:

> According to the doc:
>
> "Relax-and-Recover is the leading Open Source bare metal disaster recovery
> solution. It is a modular framework with many ready-to-go workflows for
> common situations.
>
> "Relax-and-Recover produces a bootable image which can recreate the
> system's
> original storage layout. Once that is done it initiates a restore from
> backup.
> Since the storage layout can be modified prior to recovery, and disimilar
> hardware and virtualization is supported, Relax-and-Recover offers the
> flexibility to be used for complex system migrations.
>
> "Currently Relax-and-Recover supports various boot media (incl. ISO, PXE,
> OBDR tape, USB or eSATA storage), a variety of network protocols (incl.
> sftp, ftp, http, nfs, cifs) as well as a multitude of backup strategies
> (incl.  IBM TSM, HP DataProtector, Symantec NetBackup, EMC NetWorker
> [Legato],
> Bacula, Bareos, rsync)."
>
> Looking at the spec file for the RPM it relies on either syslinux which is
> for x86/x86_64 or yaboot which is for ppc, to provide the standalone boot.
> There doesn’t seem to be an equivalent for s390x.
>
> It’s a noarch package so it builds cleanly, just not usable until the boot
> bit is provided.
>
> Neale
>
>
> On 10/14/14, 1:34 PM, "Mark Post" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >>>> On 10/14/2014 at 10:06 AM, Sebastian Korte <[email protected]>
> >>>>wrote:
> >> Hi list,
> >>
> >> does anyone heard about relax and recover[1], an open source desaster
> >> recovery tool for Linux?
> >
> >We ship that package on our High Availability extension, but only for
> >x86_64.  I'm inquiring internally to find out why we don't do the same
> >for System z.
> >
> >
> >Mark Post
> >
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