RE: BRMS question

> If you really want to load the same tape each week.  (Why you 
> would *want* to do this escapes me, especially with BRMS, 
> escapes me; but we will leave 
> that for now.)

I don't understand why anyone would _not_ want to do that?  What am I
missing?  I am planning to do the following on a daily basis:

1) At 4am an unattended backup takes place of *SAVSECDTA, *SAVCFG, *IBM,
*ALLUSR, *ALLDLO, *LINK (On Tuesday & Friday a *SAVSYS will be thrown in
too, and those 2 are duplicated for offsite storage at 2 separate
locations.)

2) At 1:30 pm an incremental save while active backup takes place of *ALLUSR

3) About 7pm (will vary slightly by day) another incremental save while
active backup takes place of *ALLUSR

All of the above will easily fit on a single tape so that is how I want it.
Each day of the week will use it's own tape.  The following week I want to
use the same set of tapes.  (At month end I will duplicate the
last-Friday-of-the-month tape and take offsite to keep for 12 months, but
that's another issue.)

> The immediate solution that comes to mind is 
> to put each 
> tape in it's own media pool and schedule the Monday pool for 
> Monday, The 
> Tuesday pool for Tue. etc.   This will get to be a big 
> repeated process, 
> but it would allow you to use the same tape each week.

I don't see where, in the backup control group or the STRBKUBRM command
where I can tell it a media pool.  So how does that help?

-- 
Jeff Crosby
Dilgard Frozen Foods, Inc.
P.O. Box 13369
Ft. Wayne, IN 46868-3369
260-422-7531

The opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily the opinion of my
company.  Unless I say so.
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Hawkins
> Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 12:11 PM
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: BRMS question
> 
> Jeff,
> 
> 
> For what its worth--last year when the auditors came in, they 
> had a fit when we only kept our daily tapes for 21 days, they 
> wanted to see 28 days-never mind that we kept weekly tapes 
> for 7 weeks.
> 
> Several years ago we went from a home grown tape backup 
> system to BRMS and have been extremely pleased with it.
> 
> (BTW Jeff, I'm only about 2 1/2 hours from you if you need 
> some help with
> this)
> 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  Jim Hawkins
>  IBM Certified Specialist AS/400 RPG IV Programmer  Iseries. Myseries.
>  Programmer/Analyst
>  Eimo Americas
> 
> Jim.Hawkins@xxxxxxxxxxx 
> 
> He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep, to gain what 
> he cannot lose. -- Jim Elliot
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