Re: Tape volume tracking in temporary Flashcopy backup

[Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>]

Do BRMS and ROBOT support flashcopy saves the same way.

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Tom Duncan <tduncan42@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Prior to inventing my version of the wheel I thought I would hit up
> the brain trust to see what others had done to address this issue,
> assuming anyone has done it. We are currently using Help Systems
> Robot/Save for our tape saves. We have licenses for BRMS (advanced and
> networking options as well) but have chosen to continue to use
> Robot/Save. Please limit commentary on that decision to relevance for
> my specific issue. We are converting our traditional tape backup
> procedure to backup from a different partition running against a
> flashcopy version of the primary partition. The partitions are
> non-IASP so after the flashcopy is ended nothing remains on the backup
> side. For anyone who is doing this or has implemented this, how did
> you manage tracking the backup media on the primary partition ?
> Converting to BRMS is a viable option if it solves my problem. Help
> Systems tells me that they have comparable functionality within
> Robot/Save as the BRMS networking but we have not implemented to date.
>
> Tom Duncan
> iSeries Systems Administrator
> Wilton Brands, Inc.
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