Darell:
Sorry for the delay, work and holiday. All answers at V5R4 so they
apply most anywhere. Some of the options have changed slightly to V6 and V7
1) Under BRMS main menu, go to Media Management. Option 1 work with
media classes. This will set up the density of the tape volumes you are
using. In my case *ULTRIUM1 (LTO 1 at my home office). Next back out
and go to Media policies. (Option 11, then 7 from the main BRMS menu)
Here create or change a media policy. I use one called DAILY. I
suggest you set the retention type at 2-Days. Set the retain media to
one less than the number of days you want the tape rotation to be, so if
the tape rotation is 3 weeks you need to use 21 - 1 = 20. That way on
the 21st day the tape will have been expired by BRMS maintenance the day
before and it will be ready for use. Be sure to change the text to
something meaning full, like "3 Week Rotation" or "21 Day rotation".
2) You can certainly use *SYSTEM control group if you want, that does a
full "21 save" every time it runs, but I think that might be overkill.
Consider doing a *SYSTEM once a month, and use a custom control group
for the balance of your daily saves. A full save every weekend with an
incremental every day. Consider creating control group called
DAILY (notice the same name as my media class and policy) Have it look
like:
Group . . . . . . . . . . : DAILY
Default activity . . . . . FIIIIII
Text . . . . . . . . . . . Daily (no Domino)
Type information, press Enter.
Auxiliary Weekly Retain Save SWA
Backup List Storage Activity Object While Message
Seq Items Type Pool Device SMTWTFS Detail Active Queue
·······
10 *EXIT *DFTACT
20 *SAVSECDTA *DFTACT *NO
30 *SAVCFG *DFTACT *NO
40 *ALLUSR *SYSBAS *DFTACT *OBJ *YES BACKUP
50 *LNKOMTLTS *ALLAVL *DFTACT *YES *YES BACKUP
60 *ALLDLO *DFTACT *NO *NO
Now you have a full copy of all your user data ever Sunday with an
incremental Monday through Saturday. ( I hope the formatting stayed in
place, I changed the font so it might)
3) You can copy the BRMS maintenance job from another partition to this
one, but make sure the BRMS maintenance runs every day after the save is
complete. One way to do that is use option 8 on your new control group
and scroll down to the bottom of the options. You will find:
Run maintenance after backup . . . . . . *NO
Change it to *YES and the maintenance will be submitted for you as soon
as the control group finishes.
Jim Oberholtzer
CEO/Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects, LLC
On 9/6/2010 11:53 AM, Darell Wheeler wrote:
Can anyone please help me with my below request.
Many Thanks
Darell
--- On Sat, 4/9/10, Darell Wheeler<darellwheeler@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Darell Wheeler<darellwheeler@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: BRMS Set Up
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion"<midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Saturday, 4 September, 2010, 3:38 PM
Hi Jim,
Please help me with the following:
1.How do I set up the media classes so the expiration dates would work properly?
2.The daily backup will actually be a full system backup.Does this mean that the System policy and back up policy should be the same as that which exists in the production for which the full system backup is already running.
3.BRMS Maintenance job runs on other partitions.Can I copy this BRMS Maintenence job and set it up on this partition to run after the backups
Kindly advice
Darell
midrange.com
