Our heads agree that TSM it's expensive. We will choose between:
1) Bacula / Amanda writing to z/OS by: FTP or NFS (hypersockets !!!). We'll backup approx 1 TB by month, then could be 250 GB weekly. I need this space in z/OS dasd, would be great writing directly to tape (maybe ftp'ing with a specific HLQ, so SMS allocates it in tape). 2) Connect the "tape ecosystem" to z/VM LPAR. The machine where it runs is already working with tapes. We have IBM VTS B20 on peer to peer (in progress...). I don't understand why Symantec discontinues Veritas Netbackup on z/Linux "Next major release following NetBackup 6.0 will not support this OS version. This status could change if market and/or vendor support positions change" Thanks 2007/8/6, Alan Altmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Monday, 08/06/2007 at 08:38 EDT, David Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > We are considering (and we should) backup our linux guests on z/VM. > > Any > > > suggestion? > > > Perhaps Tivoli TSM... > > > > Works, but is expensive. Also requires SCSI/FCP tape drives. > > Assuming the TSM server is on Linux or on another distributed system. If > it's on z/OS, channel-attached drives work just fine. > > Caveat emptor: Just because you have z/OS in-house, don't *assume* your > z/OS folks are willing to pick up that kind of workload. An analysis of > the increased CPU requirements would have to be performed and weighed > against the costs of integration into your SCSI/FCP tape ecosystem (that > does assume you have one to integrate into!). > > Alan Altmark > z/VM Development > IBM Endicott > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390