It's not free, but we use Veritas NetBackup for all our Linux, Unix and even Windows systems for file-level backups. It works just as well for zLinux as it does for Linux on Intel.
-- Robert P. Nix Mayo Foundation .~. RO-OC-1-18 200 First Street SW /V\ 507-284-0844 Rochester, MN 55905 /( )\ ----- ^^-^^ "In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, theory and practice are different." On 7/8/11 10:23 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/
