I think the 'physical region' backup feature of the UTS Global backup
product will allow you to do just this.
Dennis Andrews.
> I can even see how you could shutdown z/VM, bring up Linux in LPAR and
> make full backups of your z/VM system packs. Same way to recover from a
> serious incident (even
As to why one would want to, Rob mentions backing up z/VM (or z/OS)
from Linux to utilize the Unix-land devices. Notice that z/VM *could*
be fully backed up via Linux if it runs on FBA. [Oh, that again!]
z/VM and VSE can run on FBA, though that is the exception now.
z/OS has never let go of s
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 12:47, Bennie Hicks wrote:
> Not sure why you would want to
You would want to when you have your backup infrastructure on Open
devices and the need to backup a few z/VM volumes (obviously not the
ones that hold the Linux minidisks, but rather the MAINT disks) is
easier to do
Wed, 29 Oct 2003 12:07:43 +0100
>Reply-To: Linux on 390 Port <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>From: Rob van der Heij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: backup z/os dasd from z/linux
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 11:20, Sergey Korzhevsky wrote:
>
>> I
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 11:20, Sergey Korzhevsky wrote:
> I've tried to backup z/os dasd (actually, get image of it) from linux but
> with no success.
>
> So, is it possible?
I don't think you can. The Linux dasd driver only handles disks that
have been formatted and allocated in a very specific w
I've tried to backup z/os dasd (actually, get image of it) from linux but
with no success.
First, i attached it to linux:
echo "add range=806(ro)" >> /proc/dasd/devices
cat /proc/dasd/devices
072e(ECKD) at ( 94:112) is dasdac : active at blocksize: 4096, 296400
blocks, 1157 MB
0806(ECKD)
