Re: BRMS holiday experience

You're not the only one to use your tapes this way
.... many people do, everyone has a method
.... you can make yours work ... it does work

If you were going to keep your tapes forever
... I guess serial #'s would be great
... but there's nothing wrong with ... Mon - Fri for a rotating backup
... serial #'s would actually be much more cumbersome that way

But don't forget to do the Brms full system save on some regular basis

Terry N
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jeff Crosby<mailto:jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
  To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'<mailto:midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 
  Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 2:53 PM
  Subject: RE: BRMS holiday experience


  I'll have to digest most of your post before responding to all of it, but
  I'll start now:

  > #1 - A "Scratch Pool" is just a bunch of tapes that have been 
  > initialized by BRMS. Usually this is done via the INZMEDBRM command.

  I have _never_ been able to initialize a new blank tape in either 3581 I
  have to a name I want.  I have spent hours and hours on more than one
  occasion to no avail.  I have tried INZTAP and INZMEDBRM.  I have physically
  loaded it into the drive via front panel controls and I have mounted it thru
  WRKMLBBRM.  The only thing I was ever able to do was intialize to "BLK001".
  That's it.  I have always ended up doing:

  1) VRYCFG TAPMLBxx *OFF
  2) VRYCFG TAPxx *ON
  3) Initialize
  4) VRYCFG TAPxx *OFF 
  5) VRYCFG TAPMLBxx *ON

  > Give each tape a unique Volume Serial Number and let BRMS 
  > control when a tape can be used based on expiration date.

  My tapes names are unique and expire when I want (except for this holiday
  thing).  And they have a name that means something.  Why does everybody tell
  me to do it another way?  This is the simplest way I could come up with for
  the operator.

  -- 
  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.



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