RE: BRMS holiday experience

["Terry Nonamaker" <TNonamaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you run your maintenance daily, just don't skip the holidays
.... it needs to run and this way it will always catch them
.... Based on that, you can leave it at 13 days
.... I chose 12 just for assurance

Also, I have setup a routine to test whether the proper tape is in before it
actually submits the Night job. So we can't have the wrong tape in.

We do 2 rotating weeks
... and based on the date you actually started using Brms
... it calculates week 1 or 2 and uses the system day to setup the volid
... Then I use ChkTap and if it returns certain msgid's  
....... such as MonMsg     MsgId(CPC6718) /* Cannot allocate device */
                MonMsg     MsgId(CPC6778) /* Correct Tape in drive */  
                MonMsg     MsgId(CPF6720) /* Wrong Tape in drive */   
                MonMsg     MsgId(CPF6760) /* Tape not ready */ 
....... there are probably other msgid's I could include but these are the
....... most relevant.       
... I've had this going for 3 or 4 months now.

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff Crosby
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 1:47 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: BRMS holiday experience

> When you run your backup processing
> .... at what point do you run STRMNTBRM, which sets up the 
> media to expire.
> .... possibly TUE001 was not set to expired and it took the 
> last expired ....... which would be MON001.
> .... We have STRMNTBRM to run from the scheduler ...
> ....... *MON  *TUE  *WED  *THU  *FRI  *SUN .... So when 
> Tuesday comes ... it would be expired .... Some of this also 
> depends on the # of days you set for expiration ...... we set 
> ours at 12

I think you may have hit on something here.

Maintenance runs daily (7 days a week) at 2pm.  *BUT* that job scheduler job
is set to not run on holidays, so it did _not_ run on Monday.  Retention
policy for us is 13 days.  Therefore TUE001 was not expired yet at 4am today
because maint isn't run until 2pm.  I guess there are a few ways around this
including 1) have maint run on holidays, 2) set retention to 12 days, or 3)
have maint run at, say, 1am or anytime before the first backup will fire.

Any thoughts on which is preferable?

Thanks!