RE: BRMS Question

Rob,

How much disk space does your virtual tape take?
How many days of save do you keep?

Paul

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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rob Berendt
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 7:14 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: BRMS Question

WRKMEDBRM

Volume Creation Expiration Move Media Dup
Serial Status Date Date Location Date Class Sts
...
VRT001 *ACT 03/16/16 03/17/16 *HOME 02/08/13 VRT256K *

15=Display duplicates

Volume Volume Expiration --- Duplication --- --- Last entry ---
Type Serial Seq Date Date Time Date Time
*INP VRT001 1 3/17/16 3/16/16 6:30:05 3/16/16 3:03:22
*OUT BR0463 1 3/30/16 3/16/16 6:30:05 3/16/16 3:03:22


WRKMEDBRM

Volume Creation Expiration Move Media Dup
Serial Status Date Date Location Date Class Sts
...
BR0463 *ACT 03/16/16 03/30/16 TAPKVL01 03/02/16 ULTRIUM4 *
...

And that's on my MOVMEDBRM report to be shipped off to Iron Mountain this morning. After that, the location will say IRONMTN.

13=Display contents

Saved Save Save Save Parallel Volume File Expire
Item Date Time Type Devices Serial Sequence Date
MON_FRI 3/16/16 3:01:32 *FULL BR0463 1 3/30/16
QUSRBRM 3/16/16 3:03:22 *QBRM BR0463 2 3/30/16

9=Work with saved objects

Directory
/XDEK01/NOTES
/XDEK01/NOTES/DATA
/XDEK01/NOTES/DATA/doc
...

And none of these commands actually required the physical media. All this cataloging is stored on disk. And since I am using the networking function of BRMS I actually checked this on a system 17 miles away from the tape drive that neither did the original save to virtual tape, nor the dupmedbrm of the ftp'd virtual image catalog. So, if one system takes it in the shorts I can still find the data needed to restore it on any other lpar.




Rob Berendt
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From: Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 03/15/2016 03:52 PM
Subject: Re: BRMS Question
Sent by: "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>



Definitely sounds like an Opportunity For Adventure! :)

I agree, though, that working within BRM along the lines Rob suggests is
better than not.

Rob and Joe,

There may be another advantage to Rob's method.
If you ever do the command, WRKMEDIBRM LIB(Library that was saved with a

savf) these saves do NOT appear.

I like Rob's idea and approach, I'm going to test this out.

WRKMEDIBRM LIB(Library that was saved with a virtual volume) these saves

I believe will appear.

Also, I wonder if you could RSTLIBRM from the virtual volume remotely

across LPARs.

If so, no need to FTP the virtual.

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of

Rob Berendt

Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2016 3:08 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: BRMS Question

Paul's reply is certainly valid. I've just gotten more used to virtual

tape since I can store multiple libraries, directories, etc on it versus
save files.

Rob Berendt
--
IBM Certified System Administrator - IBM i 6.1 Group Dekko Dept 1600

Mail to: 2505 Dekko Drive

Garrett, IN 46738
Ship to: Dock 108
6928N 400E
Kendallville, IN 46755
http://www.dekko.com





From: Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 03/15/2016 03:04 PM
Subject: Re: BRMS Question
Sent by: "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>



Thanks, Paul.

This is what I'd like to do, because I can then send the save file to
another machine to do a refresh. Rob's virtual volume approach seems
more "BRMS-y" but I'm not sure it will allow me to do what I need.

Yes, we use this process for a single application save, don't need to

worry if the tape library is available.

We then save the savf to media at a later time.

1) SAVLIBBRM LIB(CABPRDF) DEV(*MEDCLS) MEDPCY(SAVF) +
SAVACT(*LIB) SAVACTMSGQ(QSYSOPR) +
OBJDTL(*YES) SAVTYPE(*FULL) ACCPTH(*YES)

2) SAVSAVFBRM LIB(*ALL) MEDCLS(ULTRIUM5) DEV(TAPMLB01)

MEDPCY(PERMPTC)

SEQNBR(*END) ENDOPT(*REWIND) CLEAR(*SAVF).

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of

Joe Pluta

Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2016 10:18 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: BRMS Question

This is just a general question, since I'm a BRMS neophyte.

Does BRMS support saving libraries to a save file, and then saving the

save file? I'd like to save a library to a save file (thus freeing up

the

library) and then save the save file one or more times to media.

Does this sound like something BRMS supports?

Thanks!
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