Re: BRMS holiday experience

["Glenn Gundermann" <ggundermann@xxxxxx>]

Jeff, 

I wouldn't use tapes that are labelled as Monday, Tuesday, etc.  I would use 
serial numbers.  No tapes should be skipped so it was correct to use 
Monday's tape. 

To use your method, you could have moved the Monday tape to a location 
off-site and then it wouldn't have tried to use it. 

Glenn 

Jeff Crosby writes: 

> The unattended backup did not run this morning at 4am.  BRMS halted it
> because it was looking for Monday's tape ("MON001"), not Tuesday's tape
> ("TUE001"). 
>
> I checked from home on Sunday to ensure that: 
>
> 1) the job scheduler job was set to skip holidays (it was)
> 2) the operator had loaded the correct tape Friday night (which is Tuesday's
> tape, which she did load). 
>
> No backup attempt took place Monday (correct) but this morning BRMS was
> looking for Monday's tape.  Is this because MON001 was the "oldest" tape,
> even though MON001 and TUE001 were both marked as expired?  How do I get
> around this?  Do I have to set the exp date on the one I want skipped
> (MON001) so BRMS doesn't look for it? 
>
> Thanks. 
>
> --
> Jeff Crosby