RE: Temporary tape errors -- MIDRANGE-L

For a planned recovery, no doubt "21" is the way to go.

BRMS shines when the recovery is unplanned, at zero dark thirty after a day
or two of getting the rest of the stuff running and hardware fixed, and now
you need to start the recovery. No question BRMS is going to outshine the
manual recovery, even with the overhead.

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Jim Oberholtzer
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steinmetz, Paul
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2014 10:36 AM
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Subject: RE: Temporary tape errors

Totally agree.
A BRMS restore can be twice as long a Restore 21.
And it is much simpler.
The BMRS recovery report is not 100%, one must read between the lines, add
or delete some items.
I'm an advocate of BRMS, but not keen on BRMS recoveries.
I feel a restore 21 does a quicker, better job than a BRMS recovery.

Paul

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Oberholtzer
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2014 11:27 AM
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Subject: RE: Temporary tape errors

There is one advantage to a "21" over a *SAVSYS in BRMS. Speed. BRMS does
add some overhead, very worth it to me, but overhead nonetheless.

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There's no real advantage to a GO SAVE 21, versus the BRMS version of the
full system save. And I'd run the BRMS restore report and download the
spool file, just in case.

Rob Berendt
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From: Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 03/04/2014 10:52 AM
Subject: Re: Temporary tape errors
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Thanks for chiming in.

The tape drive and whatnot swap would probably be scheduled for 5pm.

Regarding the full backup: Every morning at 3am we do the BRMS equivalent
of a SAVE21. Then, @4:45pm, when all billing for the next day is finished,
we do an incremental backup of *ALLUSR libs and *SPLF.

That close enough? No incremental IFS at day's end. However, there's no
reason I couldn't run an actual SAVE21 at that time.

On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Jim Oberholtzer <
midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jeff,

This is not such a big deal, what really is happening is the backplane

being replaced. They seem to think the problem is the backplane for
the tape. Could be. A full back up is in order before swapping the
cage is

order, but I don't see it as a high risk procedure.

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott
Mildenberger
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2014 9:35 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Temporary tape errors

Jeff,

We have an internal drive and the report shows lots of TTE's, I have

never

looked at this before so don't know if it has always been like this.
The report doesn't recommend replacing any media and we have not had
any

issues

restoring anything off tape.

Scott

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff Crosby
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2014 6:51 AM
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Subject: Re: Temporary tape errors

I heard from my HW service provider this morning. They want to
replace

the

internal 5755 drive, a 'cage', and wiring harness I think that's it,

but

he
may have said something else. I asked whether the replacement drive
was tested and would eliminate the Temporary Tape Errors ("TTE" for

short).

They said it was tested, but no, the TTEs would not be eliminated.

I asked why should I change drives and still have TTEs? They said
this drive would have fewer errors. They have 15 systems in their
data

center

and every internal tape drive has TTEs. Customers with internal tape
drives also have TTEs. Systems with external tape drives (data center
and
customers) don't have TTEs. Per them, TTEs on internal tape drives is

the

norm.

This *really* bothers me to think that it's acceptable in the midrange
world to have TTEs on internal tape drives. I'm really interested in
whether anyone on this list that is using internal tape drive for
backup would check their *VOLSTATS via the PRTERRLOG command and
report.

I have yet to give them the OK to do this. When I do, I may say that
I want to do it Friday at 5pm so if there is a catastrophic issue we
have the weekend to recover. (The last time they replaced the
internal tape

drive

we
lost a hard drive upon restart.) Maybe I'm overreacting, but I am

amazed

at
how much my confidence in the HW has been shaken over the past couple
of months.
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