Re: BRMS Tape Usage

[W3 <welly.soegiantoro@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Gord,
BRMS will take media / tape that are available in pool and it will search
alphabetically. It will look @ the expired media parm. Then it will use the
media for backup. You can take a look @ wrkmedbrm to chek on all media or
you can check on wrkclsbrm for specific pools...
Hope that helps

Br,
Welly
On Sep 22, 2015 8:04 PM, "Gord Hutchinson" <gordm1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> We have recently converted to using BRMS.  We have a pool of 300 LTO6
> tapes.
>
> I have a question on how BRMS determines which tape to write to next. We
> have just started to use tapes for the 3rd time.  Yet I have several tapes
> which have only been used once.  They are in the library and are expired.
> They are also physically in the library.
>
> What criteria does BRMS use to pick the next tape?  What file might I run a
> query over to display by number of uses.  I've been using the PRTMEDBRM
> reports but they don't allow me to resequence.
>
> No problems, I'm just curious.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gord
>
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