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Timing takes a little practice... I know how each of my backups take with a
little fudge factor tossed. Since all my partitions are IBM and I have
Object Connect setup ( you could do this other ways ) I do the following.
I have a dataarea defined on each partition. When backup A finishes I first
vary off the drive and via a CL tell the HMC to Move the SAS Adapter to
partition #B. Then I set a value in that dataarea and SAVRSTOBJ to the
next partition where a program is checking the dataarea for the OK to
start.. I then set the dataarea back to a value for You Can't Start Yet and
end partition A.
Repeat until al the backups are completed. With the new Power8 I am going
to switch to virtualized tapes drives on a single SAS card owned by VIOS so
I won't have to worry about have the HMC move the card and I can run both
drives a the same time with a single card fro 2 partitions.

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 6:11 AM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ok. Like I said, I would be too worried about the timing of each lpar's
backup. We already have the tapes needed. And what we send back and
forth with Iron Mountain fits into the cases used. So it's not a grind
for us.


Rob Berendt
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From: "Steinmetz, Paul" <PSteinmetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'"
<midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 09/26/2014 09:05 AM
Subject: RE: Stacked backups Was: Virtualizing Tape VIOS vs IBM 1
Sent by: "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>



Rob,

Already asked years back.
A BRMS volume can only be owned and used by one LPAR (system).
I wanted to use the same volume for all my nightly backups, and dups.
Could not be done.

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
rob@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2014 7:47 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Stacked backups Was: Virtualizing Tape VIOS vs IBM 1

Kirk,

Have you thought about submitting a DCR, or a COMMON requirement, to allow
BRMS to stack multiple lpars onto a single tape?
IDK if we could use that as I would be concerned about timing the saves on
each lpar.

Rob Berendt
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From: Kirk Goins <kirkgoins@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 09/25/2014 05:31 PM
Subject: Re: Virtualizing Tape VIOS vs IBM 1
Sent by: "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>



Because we Stack our backups from multiple LPARs on a single tape each
night we can't use BRMS ans SEQ. Mode works just fine for us. Thanks I
probably won't hear back from Techline for Several More Business Days.



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