More sophisticated backup tools you can get for Euros e.g. from CA, IBM, and I believe also others. We've been working with VM:Backup for about twenty years.
Wolfgang Software AG - Group Executive Board: Karl-Heinz Streibich (Vorsitzender/Chairman), Arnd Zinnhardt, Mark Edwards, David Broadbent, Dr. Hans Kraus, Dr. Wolfram Jost, Kamyar Niroumand, Ivo Totev Sitz/Registered office: Uhlandstra?e 12, 64297 Darmstadt, Germany, - Registergericht/Commercial register: Darmstadt HRB 1562 - Vorstand/ Management Board: Karl-Heinz Streibich (Vorsitzender/Chairman), David Broadbent, Dr. Wolfram Jost, Arnd Zinnhardt; - Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender/ Chairman of the Supervisory Board: Dr. Andreas Bereczky - http://www.softwareag.com/ -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Duerbusch Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 5:11 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: zVM Minidisk Backup process You could do a physical backup using DDR (help ddr for more info). A logical backup, which can be reloaded to any size mdisk or to/from SFS can be done via VMFPLC2 (help vmfplc2 for details). Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting >>> Mario Izaguirre <mizagui...@circulo.es> 1/28/2011 2:34 AM >>> Hi all, I wanted to ask about how to make a backup process of Mini Disk from z/VM, I long ago looking for some references on the Internet I found an example of how to make 16 copies of MiniDisk on a single tape cartridge, but cannot remember page or how it was that I found. Could someone help me how to do this process? Best Regards, Mario Izaguirre Mainframe System Programmer Barcelona, Spain
