RE: BRMS Network Feature Was: Move a tape drive to another partition

["Steinmetz, Paul" <PSteinmetz@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dana,

I do a RSTLIBBRM on system B from system A backup on a normal basis.

Cause . . . . . :   Command to execute is: RSTLIBBRM SAVLIB(BRFILES)     
  DEV(TAPMLB01) SAVLVL(*CURRENT) SAVDATE(052714 *LATEST) ENDOPT(*LEAVE)  
  OPTION(*ALL) MBROPT(*ALL) ALWOBJDIF(*ALL) RSTLIB(D1BRFILES) RSTASP(02) 
  FROMSYS(PENCOR05).                                                     

Paul

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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mitchell, Dana
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2017 11:44 AM
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Subject: RE: BRMS Network Feature Was: Move a tape drive to another partition

Do you ever have occasion to restore objects backed up on one system,  to a different system?   Or can you tell if that would work?

I'm reading up on Network feature,  Seriously  they recommend shutting down for 1 hour and re-ipling for the fall back time change?  Really?!?

Dana

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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rob Berendt
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2017 8:52 AM
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Subject: Re: BRMS Network Feature Was: Move a tape drive to another partition

We use BRMS Network feature.  Love it!!!
When you use a VTL (or any physical library) and have the media all in one pool all the systems talk to each other and know who owns what volume.  I could not imagine running without it in a multi lpar/system shop.
I don't think we replicate the BRMS stuff. 


Rob Berendt
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From:   "Mitchell, Dana" <dmitche@xxxxxxxxxx>
To:     Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   11/10/2017 09:13 AM
Subject:        BRMS Network Feature Was: Move a tape drive to another 
partition
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Just curios Rob, are you or anyone else here using BRMS Network Feature? 

We currently have several standalone LPARs using BRMS backing up to a DataDomain and I am planning on implementing BRMS on another LPAR that is replicated to backup nodes using MIMIX.  I'd obviously like backup and tape information to be available on the other nodes when we do a MIMIX switch,  but the BRMS library doesn't take well to MIMIX replication.  So I am wondering about other people's experiences using BRMS Network feature.

Dana

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Subject: Re: Move a tape drive to another partition

Glad you have your tape figured out.  We use VIOS to virtualize that card. 

 We never have to move it to any of our multiple lpars of IBM i to use it. 

 Not only that but that one card connected to multiple drives in a library.  How?  We put a SAN switch in between.  Worked great!  And, if you have multiple drives in that library you can have multiple lpars backing up at the same time.
We still have that fiber card, and the SAN.  The multiple drive library has been replaced by a Data Domain 2500 VTL.  Now all the lpars can be backed up to the numerous "drives" set up in the VTL.  We actually have the lpars doing parallel saves to four "drives" each.

And all these scenarios play well with BRMS.


Rob Berendt
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From:   "Art Tostaine, Jr." <atostaine@xxxxxxxxx>
To:     Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   11/08/2017 07:22 PM
Subject:        Re: Move a tape drive to another partition
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Thanks Paul. I'll give it a try once I figure out what else is on that
adapter.  I should be OK because the people who setup the system were 
doing
this during testing.

Art

On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 7:00 PM, Steinmetz, Paul <PSteinmetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Art,
>
> I've done this often.
> You don't move the tape library, but the IO adapter that the library is
> attached to.
> Note, ensure that the adapter driving your tape library doesn't have any
> disk drives attached also, or you will crash your system.
>
> 1) Vary off library on source LPAR
> 2) On HMC, source LPAR, dynamic partitioning, physical adapters, move or
> remove, select,  in my case, 8 gb dual port fiber channel adapter, pick 
the
> LPAR being moved to.
> 3) Takes about 2 minutes, wait for adapter to report in on target.
> 4) Vary on libarary on target LPAR
>
> Paul
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Art Tostaine, Jr.
> Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2017 5:58 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Move a tape drive to another partition
>
> I have a 8202-E4D  that hosts 2 mimix backup partitions and a dev
> partition.
>
> I need to do a full save on the partition that doesn't have the tape
> library attached to it.  It's a TS3100.
>
> Can I use the HMC to move the tape device to the other partition?  I was
> looking around the options and I don't see it.
>
> I realize I can screw up a lot of stuff in there but if I can identify 
the
> tape drive I should be OK.
>
>
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