Thank you Brian, John and Stephen. Your suggestions have pointed me in the right direction!
Dave -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Brian Nielsen Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 2:15 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: DEDICATED DASD - How to backup? As a stop gap you could change the DEDICATE's to MDISK with the DEVNO option. A minor variation would be to put all the MDISKs with DEVNO in a new placeholder userid and change the guests from DEDICATEs to LINKs. Having all the DEVNOs in one place may make administering them easier. YMMV. In either case, now they are MDISKs for HiDRO. Brian Nielsen On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:55:34 -0700, KEETON Dave * SDC <dave.kee...@state.or.us> wrote: >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 > >
