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Perhaps you can use the same thing as what is used with your x86 servers? There may be more. -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Scott Rohling Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2016 9:40 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] zLinux backup solutions Yes - a logical backup solution -- TSM is an IBM solution.... you need a backup client which can read your filesystems and send them to a server for archiving/retrieval .... A physical backup of the hard drives will always require a quiesced system for a clean backup. Scott Rohling On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 9:15 AM, Neal Scheffler <vmwiz...@gmail.com> wrote: > To get a clean backup of our zLinux servers we currently shutdown the > zLinux server and do full volume backups of its disks. > > Is there some other method / product available that we could use to > get a clean backup without having to take an outage on the zLinux server? > > Thanks, > Neal > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/
