I should have added that we will do a physical backup of zLinux in some cases without quiescing - but it is always supplemented with a logical backup.. The physical restore will normally give you a working zLinux ... any corrupted/missing/changed files can be restored via the logical backup to bring things 'up to date'.
Scott Rohling On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Scott Rohling <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes - a logical backup solution -- TSM is an IBM solution.... you > need a backup client which can read your filesystems and send them to a > server for archiving/retrieval .... > > A physical backup of the hard drives will always require a quiesced system > for a clean backup. > > Scott Rohling > > On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 9:15 AM, Neal Scheffler <[email protected]> wrote: > >> To get a clean backup of our zLinux servers we currently shutdown the >> zLinux server and do full volume backups of its disks. >> >> Is there some other method / product available that we could use to get a >> clean backup without having to take an outage on the zLinux server? >> >> Thanks, >> Neal >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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/
