RE: iSeries support question

That is a tough one. In many shops, the act of performing and
verifying the backups is indeed operations, but the maintenance of the
backup procedures themselves is administration.

It can depend on how complex your backup is. If you are running save
while active with MONSWABRM and multiple coordinated control groups or
backing up different items at different frequencies due to business
requirements, you may need more expertise than might exist in a typical
operations function.

But if your backups are pretty stable (e.g. backup everything every
night/weekend), then operations might be a good choice.

It's very easy to do a very bad backup with an incomplete understanding
of BRMS (Like the late, great Al Barsa used to say, "Most people who are
doing save while active are doing it WRONG!"), so in most shops the best
mix might be admin creates and changes the saves but operations performs
them.



Jeff Carey, MSIT, MBA
Senior Technical Support Specialist

SXC Health Solutions, Inc.
jeffrey.carey@xxxxxxx

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Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 09:01 AM
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Subject: iSeries support question

If any of you are aware of published documentation that describes
backup/restore, particularly BRMS management as an Operations function
please
forward me the link. We are trying to make the argument that all things
backup/restore & BRMS reside in the Operations support organization and
not
engineering/administration. It must be from a credible source.

Thanks!