Re: Question on BRMS Backups

We routinely use an omit list to omit certain libraries. When we do our
full system save we do it this way
STRBKUBRM ... OMITS(*IGNORE)
and that tells it to ignore any omit lists.

WRKPCYBRM *BKU
2. Work with items to omit from backup
Type Backup item
*ALLUSR #MXJRN
*ALLUSR QMPGDATA
*ALLUSR QPFRDATA

Whether or not to omit #MXJRN is a decision your shop should make.

I don't want to scare anyone away from journalling. It's great! You just
may not want to go to the extreme that we do. People here are absolutely
nuts about journalling, retain full detail, and retain it for 77 days.
Yes, it is by far our biggest library. Like 4 to 10 times the size of our
ERP data library (ERPLXF).

Primary system:
% of Size in
Library Owner Disk 1000 bytes
#MXJRN MIMIXOWN 21.31 1679736967.2
ERPLXF SSA 2.47 194767523.8
QGPL QSYS 2.44 192282337.3
ERPLXFBK DARREN 1.21 95701594.1
GDIDIVF08 SSA 1.20 94467751.9
ERPMRP LES 1.14 90199834.6
GDIDIVF SSA .98 76948377.6
ROUTINES ROB .87 68772315.1
...


H/A system:
% of Size in
Library Owner Disk 1000 bytes
#MXJRN@R QDFTOWN 45.11 2108449112.1
#MXJRN QDFTOWN 13.42 627048697.9
ERPLXF SSA 4.17 194773729.3
ERPLXFBK DARREN 2.05 95648436.2
ERPMRP LES 1.93 90198294.5
GDIDIVF SSA 1.72 80505970.7
...


A coworker and I went to COMMON and pulled this up during a Larry Youngren
session about journalling. We tried some tips of his later in our hotel
room but it just wasn't working for us.

Rob Berendt
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From: <brad.lovelady@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Date: 05/25/2013 06:50 PM
Subject: RE: Question on BRMS Backups
Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx



Kirk,

Excluding libraries from *ALLUSR is easy, but it can also cause issues if
you are not careful. The quickest option is to use backup policy omits
from *ALLUSR but that will affect any control group that references
*ALLUSR. While that might be the intended result, I would guess that if
someone does a BRMS full system save they want every library that belongs
to *ALLUSR without having to worry with explicitly configuring the omitted
libraries. The other option is to use BRMS Client Omits which can only be
configured in iSeries Navigator. These are much more flexible and only
affect the control group said omit definition belongs too. Word of
caution.....if you activate BRMS Client Omits for a control group it will
cause the control group logic to bypass any backup policy omits for items
in that control group (if applicable). In other words, for a single
control group you can do OMITS with option 1 or option2, but not both
IIRC. I would recommend the Client Omit option based on your description.

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [
mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kirk Goins
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 4:53 PM
To: Midrange-L
Subject: Question on BRMS Backups

I have a control group that includes *ALLUSR. this works pretty well but I
want to Exclude a couple libraries but keep the *ALLUSR so new libs are
automagically added.

Can this be done and if what is the best way?

Everyone Enjoy the long weekend if you can
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