Re: BRMS suddenly requires second tape?

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I would agree that a separate tape is not necessarily an advantage, 
UNLESS, you are able to push that tape to the recovery center faster 
than the other tapes can get there.  Right after the OS is recovered, 
the BRMS databases needs updates with the latest data.  Keep in mind 
that companies like Agile keep systems ready for recovery meaning we 
have the LIC loaded, DASD initialized and the base OS plus required LPPs 
already done.    Your recovery step starts with restore user profiles, 
then the BRMS database.  In that case you would be into recovering the 
system well before the partition data arrives speeding up your recovery 
by between 6 and 16 hours!

So, while there my not be direct advantages, if your  recovery time 
requires a very fast recovery, then you can save yourself a fair amount 
of time if the BRMS data is pushed to the recovery site before the 
recovery is needed.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 9/13/2012 7:08 AM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I really don't think the second tape is any advantage.
> If you really don't think it's a tape full issue then I'd call IBM and ask
> them if you tripped on something.
>
>
> Rob Berendt
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> Kern <jp2558@xxxxxxxxx> To: Midrange <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Date: 
> 09/12/2012 04:42 PM Subject: Re: BRMS suddenly requires second tape? 
> Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx "I'm not a BRMS expert but to 
> me having that QUSRBRM on a separate tape would be a big advantage if 
> you had to do a full system restore." Agreed Larry - but the cost for 
> tapes just for that would be prohibitive. "Could tape have temporary 
> write errors? I'm wondering if bad areas are being skipped." Not 
> likely John since we use different tapes each day. " I print this to a 
> PDF file on a daily basis and store it on 3 servers in multiple 
> countries." Whoa Rob - I thought I was cool just by having my reports 
> in pdf's in gmail and yahoo... ;) But three countries = uber cool!
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