RE: BRMS *SAVSYS - Media share

With BRMS, STRRCYBRM OPTION(*SYSTEM) ACTION(*REPORT) is good to do after backups. While it cannot guarantee that the tapes are completely recoverable, it states what BRMs thinks it successfully wrote to each tape, which is a pretty good bet that you can recover. If you see odd things like looking for a tape from last month or last year or objects not saved (it gives you a count right at the beginning of the report), you might want to check those out.





Jeff Carey, MSIT, MBA
Sr. Systems Administrator

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff Crosby
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 10:53 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: BRMS *SAVSYS - Media share

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
IBM i Programmer/Analyst
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[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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