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This is long so please bear with me. We have 500 directories that store
all of our documents. They are backed up with 5 separate control
groups, each one called by the previous one. These have been running
for over a year.
These backups are started with this command:
===> SBMJOB CMD(STRBKUBRM CTLGRP(IFS100)) JOB(IFS100) JOBQ(TECH)
USER(QSYSOPR) CURLIB(*USRPRF) INLLIBL(*JOBD) LOG(4 00 *SECLVL)
LOGCLPGM(*YES) SCDDATE(021205) SCDTIME(0100)
WRKCTLGBRM shows:
Group . . . . . . . . . . : IFS100
Default activity . . . . : FFFFFFF
Text . . . . . . . . . . : (100) Image Documents on Shark DASD
Auxiliary Weekly Retain Save
Backup List Storage Activity Object While
Seq Items Type Pool Device SMTWTFS Detail Active
10 IFS100 *LNK *ALLAVL *DFTACT *NO *YES
20 *EXIT *DFTACT
And the EXIT is:
Command . . . . . . . . . . SBMJOB CMD(STRBKUBRM CTLGRP(IFS200))
JOB(IFS200) JOBQ(TECH) USER(QSYSOPR) CURLIB(*USRPRF) INLLIBL(*JOBD)
LOG(4 00 *SECLVL) LOGCLPGM(*YES)
===================================================================
Etc. through IFS500. The Backup policy is APPEND(*NO) so each control
group uses a fresh tape.
===================================================================
WRKMEDIBRM LIB(IFS100) shows:
Saved Save Volume File Expiration
Item Date Time Type Serial Sequence Date
IFS100 2/07/05 7:51:39 *FULL 603140 + 1 4/03/05
(missing entries for all of January and 2/12/05.)
WRKMEDIBRM for IFS200, IFS300 and IFS500 shows the correct data
WRKMEDIBRM LIB(IFS400) shows:
Saved Save Volume File Expiration
Item Date Time Type Serial Sequence Date
IFS400 1/01/05 16:26:21 *FULL 603037 + 1 2/25/05
IFS400 1/08/05 16:53:32 *FULL 603180 + 1 3/04/05
IFS400 1/15/05 17:10:27 *FULL 603077 + 1 3/11/05
IFS400 1/23/05 7:48:50 *FULL 603117 + 1 3/19/05
IFS400 1/29/05 22:24:40 *FULL 603068 + 1 3/26/05
IFS400 2/12/05 22:37:07 *FULL 603008 + 1 4/09/05
(missing entry for 2/07/05.)
WRKMEDIBRM SLTDATE(021205 021205) shows:
Saved Save Volume File Expiration
Item Date Time Type Serial Sequence Date
*LABEL 2/12/05 1:02:12 *FILE 603182 + 1 4/08/05
QUSRBRM 2/12/05 8:11:15 *QBRM 603070 2 4/08/05
IFS200 2/12/05 8:11:35 *FULL 603130 + 1 4/08/05
QUSRBRM 2/12/05 15:08:57 *QBRM 603153 2 4/08/05
IFS300 2/12/05 15:09:17 *FULL 603006 + 1 4/08/05
QUSRBRM 2/12/05 22:36:23 *QBRM 603009 2 4/09/05
IFS400 2/12/05 22:37:07 *FULL 603008 + 1 4/09/05
The save on Serials 603182 and 603070 has a label of SAV20050212, DSPTAP
shows the same label, the joblog shows that control group IFS100 used
these tapes (and that the backup completed successfully.)
On 2/07/05 I see the same thing for IFS400, Serials 603046 and 603053
have a label of SAV20050207, DSPTAP shows the same label, the joblog
shows that control group IFS400 used these tapes (and that the backup
completed successfully.)
I called SupportLine and was told that "BRMS does not support running
BRMS commands from exits. Unpredictable results may occur." I pointed
out that these exits are actually doing a SBMJOB, but they were not sure
if that mattered.
This doesn't just affect WRKMEDBRM, my Recovery Reports from the week of
2/12 show the correct tapes for groups 200-500 but the 100 group tapes
on the report are from 2/07/2005. My question/conundrum/rant is: If
BRMS does not know what it has on it's own backups how am I supposed to
use it for D/R?
Has anyone seen or heard of similar results from BRMS?
Regards,
Scott Ingvaldson
iSeries System Administrator
GuideOne Insurance Group
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