RE: BRMS holiday experience

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

I did, right after posting the last message.  Using command RSTOBJBRM seems
pretty straightforward.  The menus were a little different, however.
Typically when I have restored an object (usually a file), it's not to
replace the live one, but I restore it to a different library because I want
to check something out within the file.  From the Perform Recovery menu, the
only way I could see to get to the "restore to library" parm was to press
F9=Recovery defaults.  Both ways worked. 

> 2 - What kind of a tape drive are you using?  Is it dedicated 
> to BRMS?

2-3581s  What do you mean 'dedicated to' BRMS?  We do back up a few things
outside of BRMS.

> 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 and Ken:
I tried to understand and use move policies.  I really did.  Backups bombed
because even though WRKMLBBRM showed the correct, expired tape was at
Mounted status in the MLB, when the backup fired, BRMS thought it was in the
safe.  Our IBM BP said he never used move policies because they made it more
complicated than necessary and he never understood it.  He was no help.
Since I had bigger fish to fry, I moved on (pun intended).