RE: BRMS holiday experience

1 - You might want to try restoring a single file, just for practice.

2 - What kind of a tape drive are you using?  Is it dedicated to BRMS?  We 
have multiple 3582's.  Both drives of one 3582 is dedicated to TSM.  We 
load 14 tapes for the week in it using the removable boxes.  The first 
night of the week takes 4 tapes.  Other nights only take 1.  (Think 
SAVCHG... concept.)  We checkout the volume(s) used in the morning.  And 
they move automatically to that little service slot on the right for 
removal and moving to offsite.  So, the whole week's worth of tapes get's 
loaded in one sitting, but removed as used.

3 - TSM keys on volume id and seems to be alphabetical.  If we physically 
load 10WK1, 11WK1, 12WK1, 01WK1, 02WK1... It will still use 01WK1 first. I 
suspect a tape labeled FRI001 would get used prior to TUE001.

Finally, if you stay with your current technique (and it took a lot of 
beatings before these TSM concepts would start sinking into our thick 
skulls and we still have a way to go) fine.  But you might want to look 
for the BRMS equivalent of "checkout" to get your MON001 out of rotation 
on holidays.

Rob Berendt