I have a maintenance window of two days a month in which I COULD shutdown the guest, but it'll meet with resistance I'm sure. The hope was to back it up daily. There's a total of 42 3380 volume currently. As to the OS, it's VM 3.1 ... yeah, old stuff! We're migrating a customer from their old mainframe. This is a temporary solution. Dave
________________________________ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Gentry, Stephen Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 1:53 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: DEDICATED DASD - How to backup? Can the guest be shutdown to do a backup? If so, try defining a full pack minidisk on the dedicated drive and then use vm:backup to backup the minidisk. Does the guest OS have a backup utility? (You didn't mention what the OS of the guest is). From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of KEETON Dave * SDC Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 4:48 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: DEDICATED DASD - How to backup? I have a guest OS running on 3380 DASD. All of the DASD is defined with DEDICATE statements to that guest only. I'm now trying to determine how to backup that guest. I have the CA VM:Backup (with HiDRO) product, but I'm told it probably won't work because the guest has no minidisks. We have a VTS here, so all the data will be written to virtual tape using the DFSMS/VM (RMS) and CA's VM:Tape. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance, Dave Keeton
