Re: BRMS user new to use of tape libraries

I agree with Paul, a control group is the way to go with very little setup and it's easier to maintain going forward. A control group will also allow you to use multiple drives should you want to (in some cases it can cut a significant time off the full system save)

These are all just suggestions. However, to answer your original question, yes it looks like your bullets are correct and should work.

Paul

On May 27, 2016, at 11:41 AM, Steinmetz, Paul <PSteinmetz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Scott,

Create a BRMS control group, one for each LPAR, define your save contents within.
Also create Media and Move policies, for each LPAR.
If fiber drives, consider a fiber switch, with proper zoning both drives available to both LPARs.
With the BRMS control group, you also gain to ability to AUTODUP.
If using AUTODUP, you can keep appending to the original tape, unload and eject the DUP tape.
This does two thing for you,
1) The autodup confirms you have a valid save.
2) 2nd copy of tape off site

Paul


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Subject: BRMS user new to use of tape libraries

I have a few years of BRMS experience but it has all been with standalone drives. My basic knowledge is enough to have CL programs that perform the needed saves (always using BRMS commands) and perform recovery.
Now I am getting a TS3100 with two tape drives (each dedicated to one partition). Each side has 12 slots for tapes. Based on my readings I wanted to double check if what I plan to do will work.
On Monday AM I will have the Operations staff load up 12 expired tapes on each side.
Our backup processes for the week then goes like this:

* Our journal save process starts with a SAVOBJBRM command that specifies SEQNBR(1). This should cause BRMS to load a new scratch tape. Is that correct?

* This tape will be appended to all day long as journal receivers are saved off to tape.

* Each evening the journal save program is ended and then the operators kick off a save procedure that essentially saves all user data to the loaded tape.

* The end of this CL program unloads the tape.

* The journal save process is restarted (again specifying SEQNBR(1)). So a new tape should be loaded.

* On Saturday night we skip the save of the user data and instead perform a full system save:

o We eject the journal tape that is in the drive

o We then perform a custom save program that essentially performs a SAVE 21 using BRMS commands. Since it starts with a SAVSYS it should cause BRMS to load a new tape. Is that correct?



I would expect I would email the BRMS move media report each morning to the Ops staff so they know which of the 12 tapes to pull out of the silo.



Does this all sound workable?



Scott Lindstrom

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