Re: BRMS no media in tape library error

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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Jeff Crosby
VP Information Systems
UniPro FoodService/Dilgard
P.O. Box 13369
Ft. Wayne, IN 46868-3369
260-422-7531
www.dilgardfoods.com

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