Re: BRMS Backup Strategy and Implementation

Yeah, too many people try to use BRMS to duplicate their old way of
thinking, with meaningful tape volume names, etc.

As I said ealier, I also don't allocate tapes to different retentions. It
grabs a tape from the library and assigns it the retention I want for this
backup.

WRKPCYBRM contains items like
Policy Days to retain media
MONDAY 35
DTFULL 360
TUE_FRI 14

WRKJOBSCDE
-----Schedule------
Job Status Date Time
BRMBKUP SCD USER DEF 17:30:00
BRMBKUPMON SCD *MON 17:30:00

BRMBKUP
Command . . . . . . . . . . . : STRBKUBRM CTLGRP(TUE_FRI) SBMJOB(*NO)

BRMBKUPMON
Command . . . . . . . . . . . : STRBKUBRM CTLGRP(MONDAY) SBMJOB(*NO)

WRKCTLGBRM
Full
Control Media
Group Policy

*BKUGRP *BKUPCY
*SYSGRP SAVSYS
*SYSTEM SYSTEM
DTEXTRA DTEXTRA
DTFULL DTFULL
MONDAY MONDAY
OMTCPY *BKUPCY
TUE_FRI TUE_FRI
...
Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : MONDAY
Media policy for:
Full backups . . . . . . . . . . . . . MONDAY
Incremental backups . . . . . . . . . MONDAY
Backup devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . *BKUPCY
...


Rob Berendt