Re: How to dump VTL backups to physical tape and import to another IBMi system and maintain all the metadata

[Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>]

What are yout eventually plans for the aged data, is most of it for
archival/audit purposes etc.  Is this to suffice some sporadic need to
restore some objects every once in a while?? I would be careful based on if
the target system is the primary system of record.  You don't mention how
large this data is either.  Maybe this might help in your planning.
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/merging-brms-data-target-system-existing-brms



On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 6:24 PM Laurence Chiu <lchiu7@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have a large amount of data on an existing VTL (IBM ProtecTier) what I
> want to dump off and move to a different IBMi system and import  into that
> system's VTL and integrate with the BRMS catalogue information.
>
> The existing backup all have the same names (same nightly database and
> libraries being backed up) and easily identified in BRMS by time/date of
> the backup.
>
> Because of many network constraints we plan to dump the information to tape
> using (at the moment) the DUPMEDBRM command and just stream the backups to
> many tapes.
>
> Once we get the tapes in the new location we would import them into the new
> VTL and ideally integrate them into the new BRMS. But what is not clear to
> us is how we can export the existing BRMS information and import that into
> the new one to retain all the metadata.
>
> So for example if we wanted a backup for a file XXXXXX taken on 1/1/2016
> then we only need to look for that backup taken on that date and BRMS would
> be able to locate the right backup in the VTL and restore it. Note to make
> clear, file XXXXXX would exist thousands of time in the backup database
> since it is a nightly backup of the primary database taken over several
> years worth of operations.
>
> I have asked the vendor doing the work to provide some advice but so far
> they have not been particularly helpful.  Any ideas from experts in this
> group would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
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