Re: BRMS: save to virtual tape, transfer to remote system, save to physical tape

If you have the network option for BRMS, (really cheap) then you would have a single data base for all your tapes and locations, including the remote site. All you do is move the tape to that location.

You could jury rig the locations if you want but then BRMS will not stop an unexpired tape from being used at the remote site.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 9/1/2011 12:19 PM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

All physical handling of tapes is in one location. Only exception is full
system saves performed at other locations 4-6 times per year. Interim
data is supposed to be clustered back to machines with physical tape
drives either by Mimix or Domino clustering. There's always some
exceptions which fall outside of that rule. For those I was wondering
about using BRMS to save to virtual tape, transfer it to the other system,
transfer it to physical tape. And, here's the rub, have it all trackable
via brms. Right now in BRMS if I do a WRKOBJBRM it will tell me all the
various tapes I have it on and when it was saved. For example:
Save Save
Object Library Type Date Time Volume
IIM GDIDIVF *FILE 4/05/11 20:58:46 BR0041
IIM GDIDIVF *FILE 7/18/11 17:52:58 BR0067
IIM GDIDIVF *FILE 7/20/11 17:35:39 BR0079
IIM GDIDIVF *FILE 7/21/11 17:38:12 BR0130
IIM GDIDIVF *FILE 7/25/11 17:37:24 BR0131
IIM GDIDIVF *FILE 7/26/11 17:39:37 BR0090
IIM GDIDIVF *FILE 7/27/11 17:43:35 BR0093
IIM GDIDIVF *FILE 7/28/11 17:38:24 BR0081
IIM GDIDIVF *FILE 7/29/11 17:38:28 BR0158
IIM GDIDIVF *FILE 8/01/11 17:37:49 BR0114
More...

If I want to restore it from x days ago - no problem.

So, if I save to virtual tape I could have as a volume name VRT001. If I
transfer this outside of BRMS by ftping (or something) the virtual image
to another system and adding the image catalog entry there I end up losing
all this brms tracking of it. So now I've done a DUPTAP from virtual to
physical but brms can't help me find the tape.

How do I do this?


Rob Berendt
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