Paul, Check this out: http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/abstracts/sg246816.html?Open
Paul Noble wrote:
Like probably many of you, we are running a z-series processor (z890). We have one LPAR running z/OS 1.7 (going to 1.9 in the not-too-distant-future), and another LPAR running z/VM 5.2 with a couple of SUSE Linux clients. Our problem has been backups. We have a 3949 Automated tape library and Virtual Tape Server on the z/OS side, but nothing but a couple of stand-alone 3490 drives that can be varied online to either LPAR, on the z/VM side. Presently we do backups by shutting down all the Linux systems, via the Wakeup utility, every night and running backups from the z/OS side. This has many drawbacks, but it works. Recently, I received a brochure from FDR, touting their new backup system, known as Upstream. From reading the brochure, it seems that the main part runs in z/OS, while there are clients that run in each Linux virtual machine. The clients communicate with the main program in z/OS via hipersockets. It allows file-based backups and restores, rather than volume-based backups, as we do now. My question is, does anyone here have any experience with this product? Any comments? On a related note, can anyone direct me to any documentation or Redbooks that explain how to create and use hipersockets in z/VM? I think I understand the 10,000 foot view; hipersockets allow PR/SM to create high-speed data channels for transferring data between LPARS'. I've seen the 1 foot level, in the form of the RDEVICE statemtent in the System COnfig file. I'm looking for something in the 10-100 foot level; All the steps, in some, but not excruciating, detail, that are necessary to create and use hipersockets. We already have several defined in our IOCS, but neither z/OS or z/VM is set up to use them. Thanks, Paul Noble, Systems Programmer Cuyahoga County Information Service Center ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
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