> 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?
If you use FDR on the z/OS side, it's a great choice in that it leverages a lot of z/OS infrastructure in a good way. As you note later in your message, the catch is getting hipersockets set up between the LPARs, which is a gigantic PITA. You may want to set up a "backup" guest LAN or VSWITCH on the VM side, and use one VM or Linux guest as a router between the backup guest LAN and ONE hipersocket connection (so you don't have to figure out how to define a bunch of them). Some of the earlier hardware also has a limited number of hipersockets, so you don't want to waste them. Upstream only cares that it can get IP packets between Linux and z/OS, so you don't have to connect everything you want to back up directly to the hipersocket. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
