I followed David's concept of using Bacula to write to a NFS share exported from z/OS. Bacula thinks it writes to local disk - and I have HSM on z/OS managing the files. It works just fine including migrating datasets etc.
Jerry Whitteridge Design Engineer Safeway Inc. 925 951 4184 If you feel in control you just aren't going fast enough. > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf > Of Frederick, Michael > Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 10:02 AM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: Linux backups and restores to/from tape > > Right now it's a disk-level backup that is done by HiDRO to > tapes(weekly). The question I would have is if Amanda or Bacula > support 3590 tapes, from a quick google search it looks like Bacula > does, no idea about Amanda. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf > Of John McKown > Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 11:41 AM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: Linux backups and restores to/from tape > > 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/ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > 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/ "Email Firewall" made the following annotations. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Warning: All e-mail sent to this address will be received by the corporate e-mail system, and is subject to archival and review by someone other than the recipient. This e-mail may contain proprietary information and is intended only for the use of the intended recipient(s). If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient(s), you are notified that you have received this message in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately. ============================================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
