Re: BRMS no media in tape library error

[Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Single partition, 7.1, tapes get expired normally by BRMS maintenance from
AJS jobs.  I expired the tape myself manually on Friday.

On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 10:00 AM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I don't think you're a multi lpar kind of guy so some other unit using
> that media library is kind of ruled out.
>
> Do these tapes expire based on control group or do you have some job
> schedule entry that expires the tapes?  If the job schedule entry might it
> have been held up due to a job queue being tied up at that time? (I do it
> based on settings in BRMS; not via a job schedule entry or some such
> thing.)
>
> Then again, how does brms expire tapes based on that date?  Is it done
> via:
> wrkjobscde brm*
> Job
> BRMBKUP
> BRMBKUPMON
> BRMMAINT
> BRMMOVE
> BRMMOVRPT
> BRMRECOVER
> BRMTEMP
>
> Job:   BRMMAINT
>  Command  . . . . . . . . . . . :   STRMNTBRM RMVMEDI(*REUSE)
> PRTEXPMED(*NO) PRTVSNRPT(*NO) PRTBKUACT(*NO) PRTRCYRPT(*RCYANL *SAVEXCP)
> Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . :   BRMS:  Expire media, create recovery
> reports
>
> When does this run on your system?  Before or after
>  Date sent  . . . . . . :   06/08/15      Time sent  . . . . . . :
> 03:06:04
>
> Of course, we load two weeks of tapes into our media library each Monday.
> And remove what gets used on a nightly basis for shipment to Iron
> Mountain.  Then
>
>
> Rob Berendt
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>
> From:   Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To:     Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   06/08/2015 08:49 AM
> Subject:        BRMS no media in tape library error
> Sent by:        "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
>
> All,
>
> Before leaving home for work in the morning, I check email to insure the
> IBM i backup completed.  This morning I did not have that email so I
> VPN'ed
> to the console to check it out.  The backup was waiting on this message in
> QSYSOPR to be answered:
>
>                          Additional Message Information
>
>
>
>  Message ID . . . . . . :   BRM148A
>
>  Date sent  . . . . . . :   06/08/15      Time sent  . . . . . . :
> 03:06:04
>
>
>  Message . . . . :   No media of class ULTRIUM2 is available at location
>
>    TAPMLB01. (C G)
>
>
>
>  Cause . . . . . :   No media of class ULTRIUM2 exists or is available for
> the
>    operation to use at location TAPMLB01.
>
>  Recovery  . . . :   Do one of the following:
>
>      -- Add more media of this class to the media inventory, mount this
> media
>    on device TAPMLB01, and type G to continue.
>
>      -- For virtual tapes, add volumes to any image catalog except
>  *NONE
>    and also add them to the BRMS inventory. Then type G to continue.
>
>      -- Type C to cancel the operation.
>
>  Possible choices for replying to message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :
>
> G -- Continue with the operation.
> C -- Cancel processing.
> Reply  . . . :   C
>
> As you can see I responded with C.  This was on SAVSYS, the first save in
> the control group.  i expected to get several more as the next steps in
> the
> control group would attempt various saves.  To my surprise though, the
> saves dutifully backed up to the tape that was installed.  Everything is
> on
> the tape except, obviously, the SAVSYS.
>
> The tape was expired prior to this.  The control group hasn't changed in
> years.  Why would it say there's no tape available and the very next step
> run just fine?  What am I missing?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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