Just a remark. TSM does *not* have a tape requirement. You can have a disk only installation just fine. Do your first level backups to what your standard disk for Linux uses. Then migrate to some cheap outside storage and have that mirrored to a secondary location. My experience is that the software side of TSM is lots cheaper than whatever hardware (tape or disk) you need to get to reasonable (Terabyte scale) amounts of data. If you don't need that scale just use some outside TSM on x86_64.
Best regards, Pieter Harder pieter.har...@brabantwater.nl tel +31-73-6837133 / +31-6-47272537 -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] Namens Scott Rohling Verzonden: vrijdag 8 juli 2011 17:41 Aan: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Onderwerp: Re: Linux backups and restores to/from tape The TSM product will do file level backups (with FCP attached tape) under Linux on System z .. but it's not free. I think it's the tape part that's going to limit options.. if you could deal with using disk storage for 'archive' purposes, then there are lots of open source options.. everything from rdiff (as I recall - an rsync based backup with delta archiving) and things like bacula. You could perhaps combine this solution with physical backups to tape of the archive data on disk? Scott Rohling On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Frederick, Michael < michael_freder...@ibi.com> 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/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ Brabant Water N.V. Postbus 1068 5200 BC 's-Hertogenbosch http://www.brabantwater.nl Handelsregister: 16005077 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
