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Well, you can tell it's Monday....and that the 9mo old woke up at 2am this
morning.... <grin>

I completely missed the fact that the OP was using BRMS....

However, there is a SAVSAVFBRM command, so my first post wasn't entirely
useless.

BUT, I don't think BRMS is going to support what you are trying to do.

I think it'd support using the same tape on multiple LPARs, but moving the
save from one machine to another is going to cause problems.

I think you need to choose between efficiency, manageability, and usability.

Charles

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:01 AM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

One important consideration is how does all this play in a BRMS
environment?

Does BRMS allow you to specify more than one lpar on a tape? I'd check
into that first. If it doesn't then submit a DCR to do so.

If you do go into the save file concept will BRMS still print out the nice
report on how to restore your system, if need be?

Rob Berendt
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From:
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To:
midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date:
11/17/2008 09:48 AM
Subject:
backup question
Sent by:
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I have an opportunity presented to me and I would like some assistance in
coming up with a solution.

I have a 3 LPAR iSeries with one tape drive. The tape drive allocation
rotated between the 3 LPARs for backup purposes. The tape drive is an
LTO4. Each partition is running V5R4M5 with networked BRMS. Each day
backup is performed on each LPAR. Each tape is saved for 28 days. Monthly
backups require 6 tapes for the 3 LPARs. These 6 tapes are stored
permanently.

Now for the opportunity, reduce the number of tapes used each in the daily
backup. I had thought about creating a library on 2 of the LPARs to
contain save files of each library, save each library to a save file and
then FTP the contents of the save library to the main LPAR and then backup
the main LAR to tape those only using one tape.

The problem with this solution is restores. If I need to restore a file
from one of the alternate LPARs, I would have to restore the saved file to
a library and then restore the file from the saved file.

I would like to find other solutions to this opportunity using the tools
available.

Thanks for all your help

Dave Willenborg
FNTS
Omaha NE

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