Expiring tapes from a dead AS/400
We have a problem with BRMS tape – system ownership. We have multiple tape volumes owned by a system that is no longer functional and is effectively gone. How can we expire the tapes that are owned by the dead system.?

Answer Question   |  March 10, 2010  6:27 PM
AS/400, Backup and Recovery on Iseries, BRMS Backup

Upgrade clean-up procedure for backup and restore
I am migrating from old AS400 machine (825) to newer machine (570) both hold OS400/V5R4M5. already loaded the new 570 machine with user data backup for testing purposes before live migration. Ny question is, at the day of migration what will be the clean-up procedure for the new machine before I perform the restore of [...]

Answer Question   |  February 19, 2010  4:16 PM
AS/400, Backup and Recovery on Iseries, IBM 570, Upgrades, V5R4M5

DRP testing – cannot restore full backup on the DRP machine (IFS fails to restore)
I have taken a full backup with the go system command , option 21 and there were no errors. When I sent my tape over to our Central Office to be restored on the DRP machine , the DRP person says that the IFS fails to restore. This has happened twice with 2 different tapes. [...]

Answer Question   |  July 23, 2009  4:06 PM
Backup, Backup and Recovery on Iseries