Re: BRMS *SAVSYS - Media share

[Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

How do you "verify a backup?"

Insure the tape is readable?
DSPTAP?
DSPTAP to *OUTFILE and verify everything on the system is on the tape?




On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Jerry C. Adams <midrange@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Jeff,
>
> I'm surprised at you!  I would have thought that you would have tested your
> backup.
>
> A few years ago I had an auditor who, in an attempt to find something
> negative to put in the audit letter, asked me if I had tested my backup.
> Sure, I replied.  Okay, well, do your verify every night's backup?  BRMS,
> which I didn't use, might have something to satisfy an auditor; I didn't so
> I had to write my own.  Made him happy.
>
> Jerry C. Adams
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff Crosby
> Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 8:23 AM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: BRMS *SAVSYS - Media share
>
> All,
>
> I stumbled across this on page 127 of "Backup, Recovery, and Media Services
> for i"
>
> "A backup control group with the *SAVSYS special value must specify *NO in
> the Shared media field of the media class."
>
> The media class I use is ULTRIUM2, which has Shared media *YES.  Is this
> telling me the backups I have been doing for 7+ years with BRMS are not
> usable to recover the system?
>
> The tape drives are 3581-028 used in library mode.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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