RE: BRMS recovery report questions/issues

My first suggestion is: Question the audit requirement. Do you really
need to save them forever? Question, question, question.
Regarding that same topic, why aren't you doing DUPMEDBRM from LTO3 tapes
(and other obsolete media) to newer media? And then expire the outdated
media. At some point it won't do you any good to say "why yes we have
that saved. Just let me pull that 8" diskette off the shelf and get right
on that restore - as soon as I figure out how to read it...".

It's important to keep your backup media documented. And it might as well
be in BRMS. So, no, I do not recommend you keep those saves but remove
any vestiges of them from BRMS. Just understand what that part of the
report is telling you - and ignore it, since it's not needed for a full
system recovery. Let's pretend it was on your regular, most recent, full
system save. And you purposely did a DLTLIB of that lib. Then you ran
another save (not a full system save). After that you had a disaster
and/or are doing a migration and you want to do a full system recovery.
You have that save on your media but it won't restore it since you ran the
DLTLIB. BRMS keeps track of this. If you did this outside of BRMS you'd
end up restoring libraries you no longer wanted. Unless you manually kept
records of them.


Rob Berendt