Thanks to all who responded... The customer said that the BMRtool seemed to do what he wanted... Lee
Romanowski, John (OFT) wrote:
What linux distribution are you running? Our SLES 9 & 10 linux guests run 24x365 and can't be down for an image backup. We're using Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) for daily incremental file level backups over a network. "BMRtool scan" run daily, before the TSM backups, captures the latest partition, LVM and filesystem metadata to files so that's on the TSM backup. The scan also generates a custom file of commands your rescue system would run to load disk device drivers, bring the disks online, dasdfmt 'em, partition-em, LVM-them, fs-em, mount-em, chmod-em, chown-em, and the TSM restore commands to restore-em. You'd manually do mkinitrd, zipl and boot it. 'BMRtool for file-level Bare Metal Restore of SLES 9 zSeries on z/VM' http://www.linuxvm.org/Info/HOWTOs/BMRtool.html It could work for the part of bacula's bare metal restore that hasn't been written yet for zLinux SLES 9. -------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail, including any attachments, may be confidential, privileged or otherwise legally protected. It is intended only for the addressee. If you received this e-mail in error or from someone who was not authorized to send it to you, do not disseminate, copy or otherwise use this e-mail or its attachments. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete the e-mail from your system. -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lee Stewart Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 12:03 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Backup that saves LVM data? Hi All.... Does anyone know of a backup solution for Linux (on Z) which: a) can be done while the system is up b) also saves the LVM and filesystem metadata (as opposed to just files) So that if you needed to restore, you could take new DASD volumes, format cyl 0 for CP, and restore and it would recreate the LVMs, filesystems etc.. Yes, it sounds like a DDR or DFDSS dump, but those have to be taken with the Linux image down. Any thoughts? Thanks, Lee -- Lee Stewart, Senior SE Sirius Computer Solutions Phone: (303) 798-2954 Fax: (720) 228-2321 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.siriuscom.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
-- Lee Stewart, Senior SE Sirius Computer Solutions Phone: (303) 798-2954 Fax: (720) 228-2321 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.siriuscom.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
