RE: BRMS suddenly requires second tape?

I have not read all the other responses

But, are you sure the tapes are being properly expired thru BRMS maintenance
......has anything, however subtle, changed in your normal process that this
might not run?

Just a thought

Terry Nonamaker

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Subject: Re: BRMS suddenly requires second tape?

I know you esponded that it was not likely. I am wondering what using the
tape less might do to accumulating temporary write errors.
Wouldn't the tape still wear out, even if it took a lot longer to do so? I
was just tossing that out from my ancient experience with 9 track tape.
Watching the drive toss several feet for a temporary write was interesting
to watch. Running a PRTERRLOG and checking the general errors and errors
specific to tapes from the past few days
still might show something, wouldn't it? I have no knowledge of
BRMS, so, again, this goes back to old experience.

John McKee

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Gerald Kern <jp2558@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"I'm not a BRMS expert but to me having that QUSRBRM on a separate
tape would be a big advantage if you had to do a full system restore."

Agreed Larry - but the cost for tapes just for that would be prohibitive.

"Could tape have temporary write errors? I'm wondering if bad areas
are being skipped."

Not likely John since we use different tapes each day.

" I print this to a PDF file on a daily basis and store it on 3
servers in multiple countries."

Whoa Rob - I thought I was cool just by having my reports in pdf's in
gmail and yahoo... ;) But three countries = uber cool!

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Thanks, Jerry

Gerald Kern - Information Technology
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IBM Certified RPG IV Developer
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The Toledo Clinic, Inc.
4235 Secor Road
Toledo, OH 43623
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