Re: BRMS: save to virtual tape, transfer to remote system, save to physical tape

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

If you have the network option for BRMS, (really cheap) then you would 
have a single data base for all your tapes and locations, including the 
remote site.  All you do is move the tape to that location.

You could jury rig the locations if you want but then BRMS will not stop 
an unexpired tape from being used at the remote site.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 9/1/2011 12:19 PM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> All physical handling of tapes is in one location.  Only exception is full
> system saves performed at other locations 4-6 times per year.  Interim
> data is supposed to be clustered back to machines with physical tape
> drives either by Mimix or Domino clustering.  There's always some
> exceptions which fall outside of that rule.  For those I was wondering
> about using BRMS to save to virtual tape, transfer it to the other system,
> transfer it to physical tape.  And, here's the rub, have it all trackable
> via brms.  Right now in BRMS if I do a WRKOBJBRM it will tell me all the
> various tapes I have it on and when it was saved.  For example:
>                                       Save       Save
>   Object      Library      Type       Date       Time    Volume
> IIM          GDIDIVF      *FILE      4/05/11  20:58:46  BR0041
> IIM          GDIDIVF      *FILE      7/18/11  17:52:58  BR0067
> IIM          GDIDIVF      *FILE      7/20/11  17:35:39  BR0079
> IIM          GDIDIVF      *FILE      7/21/11  17:38:12  BR0130
> IIM          GDIDIVF      *FILE      7/25/11  17:37:24  BR0131
> IIM          GDIDIVF      *FILE      7/26/11  17:39:37  BR0090
> IIM          GDIDIVF      *FILE      7/27/11  17:43:35  BR0093
> IIM          GDIDIVF      *FILE      7/28/11  17:38:24  BR0081
> IIM          GDIDIVF      *FILE      7/29/11  17:38:28  BR0158
> IIM          GDIDIVF      *FILE      8/01/11  17:37:49  BR0114
> More...
>
> If I want to restore it from x days ago - no problem.
>
> So, if I save to virtual tape I could have as a volume name VRT001.  If I
> transfer this outside of BRMS by ftping (or something) the virtual image
> to another system and adding the image catalog entry there I end up losing
> all this brms tracking of it.  So now I've done a DUPTAP from virtual to
> physical but brms can't help me find the tape.
>
> How do I do this?
>
>
> Rob Berendt
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