RE: BRMS with "alternative" media such as RDX, sticks, etc WAS: Backup Tape rotation with Corona-virus

Presuming you have the last tape (remember saving QUSRBRM at the end of
every save?) you simply recover to the point where that library is loaded,
then do the STRRCYBRM *SYSTEM. Or if you want the report, you can create it
at that point.

Any copy of a recovery report will suffice to get that far, you just have to
swap the tape name out.

I've done it many times.

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Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects

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Subject: Re: BRMS with "alternative" media such as RDX, sticks, etc WAS:
Backup Tape rotation with Corona-virus

Hi Rob,

How do you read a BRMS recovery report if your building is ashes and the IBM
i is melted slag?

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On 6/11/2020 8:50 AM, Rob Berendt wrote:

Used to use "sensible" naming. Same tape drive (library in sequential

mode, not random) used by multiple lpars. Had to load them in just the
right order, etc. You really weren't guaranteed that the sensible naming
matched what was really on the tape.

An alternative if you use "random" mode might be to set up your backup
so that it calculated the media needed and specified the volume SAVLIB
LIB(MYLIB) DEV(KDVLVTL) VOL(L01MON1) For lpar 01, Monday, Week 1

Still if a person cannot read BRMS recovery reports, or at least find the

volume names from the BRMS recovery reports, they have no business doing
your restore.

Some people are more confused by the "sensible" names. Was the Monday

save 4am Monday or 11pm Monday? Big difference. Systems down. You cannot
look at WRKJOBSCDE. Person who schedules it is looking through rubble for
their child.

Is this Week 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 when selecting L01MON1? Idk, you're

supposed to check the calendar taped to their cubicle over there in that
pile of ashes which used to be our building.

Rob Berendt

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