Len, Thanks very much. You may have made my life much easier. ________________________________
From: Rugen, Len [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 2/25/2008 2:26 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Z/os shop starting to deal with Z/vm In the past, we had a popular non IBM disk backup utility. It would dump VM volumes under MVS so you can use your existing tape vaulting process. If you have to do a stand alone restore, it really doesn't matter if you boot the vm backup program or FDR's... Oops.... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html