Re: BRMS suddenly requires second tape?

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jerry,

I'm coming into this a bit late as I was out of the office yesterday, 
but it sounds like QUSRBRM is growing.  I wonder if you check the BRMS 
attributes (in the control group) to see if you started saving more data 
to BRMS.  I don't have a 6.1 system to look at but I'm thinking the 
detail column may have changed:


                                 Weekly   Retain Save     SWA
     Backup     List ASP         Activity Object While    Message    Sync
Seq  Items      Type Device      SMTWTFS  Detail Active   Queue      ID

  10 *SAVSECDTA                  *DFTACT  *NO
  20 *SAVCFG                     *DFTACT  *NO
  30 *ALLCHGRCV      *SYSBAS     *DFTACT
  40 *ALLPROD        *SYSBAS     *DFTACT  *OBJ   *YES     BACKUP     *NONE
  50 *ALLTEST        *SYSBAS     *DFTACT  *ERR   *YES     BACKUP     *NONE
  60 *LINK           *ALLAVL     *DFTACT  *NO    *NO
  70 *ALLDLO                     *DFTACT  *NO    *NO
  80 *EXIT                       *DFTACT

In the example here the *ALLPROD saves all object level data whereas 
*ALLTEST saves only error data.  Object level data will take up some 
bits on disk in a hurry.

The other thing to check is did an entry get added to the control group 
with *LOAD?  That will force a new tape too.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 9/12/2012 7:43 AM, Gerald Kern wrote:
> V6R1 - starting last Friday night BRMS started asking for a second tape.
> Nothing had changed in the control group. Our initial assumption was that
> data had grown enough to require a second tape. Yesterday we were able to
> remove enough data to reduce our % system ASP used  from 44 to 39.19% (and
> we have 1.5TB total.) Our LTO-4 tapes have an 800GB capacity. Last night it
> still asked for a second tape.
>
> My operator used DSPLOGBRM and compared tape contents with a tape prior to
> the start of this problem and there were no major differences between the
> time it took to backup the individual objects and libraries and their
> sizes. The only difference found was towards the end of the backup (at
> around 12:42 and 12:46 a.m.) there is a command that has started to appear
> since Friday.
>
>
>
> *9/11/12   0:42:46  Starting save of media information at level *LIB to
> device*
>
>
>
> It is shortly after this command that a second tape is needed. We're not
> sure why that started on Friday, but maybe that has something to do with
> the backup now needing two tapes?
>
>
> In reviewing the contents of the tapes via DSPLOGBRM we saw no major
> differences we found that the only thing on the second tape is QUSRBRM?
>
> Anybody with any clues as to why we suddenly need a second tape?
>
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