RE: BRMS holiday experience

["Graap, Ken" <keg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I can think of an even easier way to manage your tapes using BRMS....

What if you just created a "pool of tapes" using unique Volume Serial
numbers (i.e. E00001 - E99999) and then let BRMS manage where your data is
stored on those tapes??? 

After all, this is one of the strengths of BRMS, managing your tape library,
let it do that for you. 

You already let the system manage where it stores data on disk, right? Well
using this same concept, let BRMS manage where data is stored on tape. 

When a tape is created it is given an expiration date based on the media
policy.

When the expiration date is reached the tape is then returned to the
"scratch pool" when the BRMS maintenance process is run.

All the operator has to do is to run a daily "scratch tape" report and then
make sure the tape drive is loaded with these tapes. BRMS takes care of the
rest....

... and when you need to recover something, BRMS will tell you which tape to
mount. 

I think this is a much easier way to handle you backup tapes using BRMS....

Kenneth



-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jeff Crosby
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 1:03 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
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?

Have not needed to.  I use the MON, TUE, etc because it is simpler for the
operator to know which tape to insert.  It gets inserted before leaving at
night and fires off at 4am.