On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:26:37 -0500, Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Free advice: Always run DIRECTXA against your last known-good directory
when the system comes up after a DR restore unless you know that the
object and source directories are in sync. (You don't know, unless the
system
Is anyone using DSS to backup their VM system under zOS and have you
been successful in restoring and IPL'ing ?
Sample of the DSS backup statements were using,
DUMP TRACKS(0,0,3338,14) INDDNAME(DASD) OUTDDNAME(TAPE) ADMIN -
CPVOLUME CANCELERROR
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Subject: Re: Backing up and restoring zVM 5.2 using IBM's DSS backup
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Brian,
Do you understand that if you backup any system from any other system,
using tools which
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Subject: Re: Backing up and restoring zVM 5.2 using IBM's DSS backup
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We have used the method you show to restore a Linux guest and we were
able to logon and use it with no problem we were using z/OS 1.6.
But when we back up Linux
Thanks, likewise our linux guests and VM itself is down.
I was more curious around the cp allocations for page, spool tdisk
were
they preserved.
Page is volatile by definition, so backing it up is kinda pointless.
Ditto tdisk. Spool, you need to do with SPXTAPE if you expect it to be
usable
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Thanks, likewise our linux guests and VM itself is down.
I was more curious around
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Is anyone using DSS
Brian--The appends that followed yours and preceded mine are all good
advice, HOWEVER and there is always one of those.
If you don't use a VM based database, you don't have to worry about
that. If you are, you'd better, at least, shut it down for the backup
time.
The comments about the
On Tuesday, 02/19/2008 at 01:30 EST, Mike Walter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Solution: backup a system using its own products which are aware of
these
limitations, or use backup tools at rely on a client running on the
system
being backed up to get a stable, reliable, and _restorable_ backup.
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