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

Yes. Just use the used volume report (1 page) to tell you what volumes.
Now you don’t have the mess of trying to synchronize your naming
convention to what BRMS decides to use.

You can use media class to distinguish between daily, and monthly tapes if
you really need to.

On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 3:43 PM Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The BRMS manual distinguishes backup automation and tooling from backup
strategy. Backup strategy defines what you want to achieve. Backup
automation and tooling play a supporting role. If you focus too much on
what BRMS does, you may object to perfectly valid alternatives for what
you're trying to achieve.

A backup strategy might specify something like:

Save all user libraries and IFS directories daily.
Store daily backups on separate volumes, which align in capacity with the
size of the backup streams. Waste not, want not.
Initialize daily volumes such that the backup from the previous week is
replaced.
On the first day of the month, name the backup file BOM (for beginning of
month), rather than the day of the week.
Save to cost-effective, transportable media as opposed to using costly
DASD.
Zip, encrypt, transfer and store an additional copy of the daily backup to
a server located in a distant region.
Save the zip file with a name that reflects the day of the week so that it
can be easily restored if needed.

The name of backup volumes and files might be defined up front and have
meaning to a backup strategy.

A physical label may help you identify a volume quickly if you need to grab
it and run from a fire in the building.
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