Re: Unattended save with tape media library

well, it's not an automatic thing...

if you are not using BRMS or another product, then you have to establish
tape categories, initialize the tapes, assign them to categories and then
mount the category with the SETTAPCGY command. Then the save commands with
*MOUNTED will work for you.


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----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Rowe" <martin@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 12:05 PM
Subject: Unattended save with tape media library


> Hi all
>
> We've just had a 3494 installed (which seems bigger than our AS/400s!)
> and the first unattended SAVSYS (from GO SAVE 21) wasn't a resounding
> success :( Although we can set the device to use for it, the VOL parm
> only shows up if the save commands are prompted. That isn't a lot of use
> for unattended backups, where the save is happening (and any requested
> prompting) the day after the option is taken. Leaving VOL(*MOUNTED) (the
> default) causes the backup to fail.
>
> We already have customised versions of the programs behind option 21
> which I can tweak to prompt for the volumes (in QMNSRBND) and build them
> into the relevant save commands (in QMNSAVE), but I'm wondering if I'm
> overlooking something obvious first. As yet we don't have any specific
> backup managing software (BRMS, Robot, etc)  and no immediate plans to
> get any - this is just a request to see if my roll-my-own approach isn't
> making things too complicated.
>
> Regards, Martin
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