RE: Each Step of A BRMS Control Group to A Separate Tape?

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

Gord,

How big is your system?
What type of DASD coming from / going to?
What type and speed is your backup device?

I just migrated two LPARs from P7 to P9 using BRMS, with a 3573 LTO7 tape library, using 4 drives for the save and 4 for the recovery.
It was very successful, times were good.
IBM actually doesn't support using BRMS for migrations, even though it works without issue. (IBM never tested it).
Depending on some of your variables, a save 21 / restore 21 could be faster.

There is an option were you can save with BRMS, but do restore 21.
In BRMS, you could add an exist point after the SAVSYS, and unload the tape.

Paul 

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gord Hutchinson
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2019 3:17 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Each Step of A BRMS Control Group to A Separate Tape?

I knew that was going to be the first response.

To do a migration to a new Power 9, I want to be able to restore the SAVSYS
while the *ALLUSR is backing up, the *ALLUSR while the IFS is backing up
etc.

We're probably going to do an Option 21 save rather than a BRMS save prior
to the migration anyway but I was just curious.  We can't afford the down
time to wait for the full backup to complete before starting the restore
process.

I've done it in the past but I had my own CL backup process then.


Gord



On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 2:57 PM Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I realize this may be a total waste of your time since I probably won't
> research how to get them to go to a separate tape.  So if you don't want to
> answer I'll understand.  But I gotta ask,
> why?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of
> Gord Hutchinson
> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2019 2:40 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Each Step of A BRMS Control Group to A Separate Tape?
>
> Given, a control group consisting of
> *SAVSYS
> *IBM
> *QHST
> *ALLUSR, etc
>
> Is there a way to force each step to a separate tape?  Specifically, I
> would like the system/IBM on one tape, *ALLUSR on a second and the IFS on a
> third.
>
> Append to media is already set to *NO in both the control group and the
> backup policy.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Gord
>
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> TFI International
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