RE: BRMS holiday experience

["Terry Nonamaker" <TNonamaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

When you run your backup processing
.... at what point do you run STRMNTBRM, which sets up the media to expire.
.... possibly TUE001 was not set to expired and it took the last expired
....... which would be MON001.
.... We have STRMNTBRM to run from the scheduler ...
....... *MON  *TUE  *WED  *THU  *FRI  *SUN 
.... So when Tuesday comes ... it would be expired
.... Some of this also depends on the # of days you set for expiration
...... we set ours at 12


Some of it all depends on how and when you submit your job for backup
.... We submit a Night processing job of which the backup is scheduled from
.... the primary job that runs, assuring that it only runs when we need it.
.... Monday's job is submitted to run on Tuesday morning at 4am
....... but it's run date is Mondays date
.... This Monday did not run because it wasn't needed
....... but STRMNTBRM did, because it runs from the scheduler as appointed
.... On Friday's run we do a backup at 4am w/*leave because we append it
....... with a FULL backup on Sat Night. Been working fine for a long time. 

These are just thoughts and suggestion
..... you probably run your process completely different
....... mine works well for me.

Some of it is just trial and error.

Terry Nonamaker

  
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Subject: Re: BRMS holiday experience

BRMS is probably different than TSM.  But in TSM I believe we:
upd libv tapmlb01 MON001 status=private access=unavailable
and/or
checkout libv tapmlb01 MON001 remove=yes checklabel=no

However, it may be a conceptual issue on your part.  We don't label our 
volumes like MON... we just label them 01WK1, 02WK1, 03WK1, ..., 01WK2, 
02WK2, 03WK2...
BRMS should tell you which volume to mount to restore a particular object. 
 Have you restored using BRMS yet?

Rob Berendt