What are you using to backup the disk/filesystem? Could you use tar or cpio or zip, Amanda, Bacula? For a commercial product, FDR Upstream will run an agent on Linux but talk to a server on z/OS which will write to z/OS tapes.
On Fri, 2011-07-08 at 11:23 -0400, Frederick, Michael wrote: > Hi all, > > A question came up about getting an older version of a file on a Linux > disk, which I was able to do by restoring the DASD that held the file > in question to a temporary disk and then they could do whatever they > liked with the file, easy enough. It got me to thinking about, what > would happen if this were to take place on an LVM? Having a > dasd-level backup is likely to be of limited use in this case, because > you'd more than likely have to restore the entire LVM to a separate > set of disks just to get at that one file. > > So does anyone know of a solution (free being better) that would do a > file-level backup for zLinux to a tape? Or has anyone dealt with this > problem before and had some other way around it? > > Thanks in advance, > > Mike Frederick > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
